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Lesson 19: A Lesson in Humility (John 3:22-30) | July 14, 2013

In a “Peanuts” cartoon, Linus tells Charlie Brown,

“When I get big, I’m going to be a humble little country doctor. I’ll live in the city, see, & every morning I’ll get up, climb into my sports car, & zoom into the country!

Then I’ll start healing people… I’ll heal people for miles around!”

In the last frame, he exclaims,

“I’ll be a world famous humble little country doctor!”

Charles Schultz, the cartoonist, was poking fun a how difficult it is for us to be humble. . We may start out with the goal of being a humble little whatever, but before we know it, we’re into being a world-famous, humble little whatever!

Pride is arguably the most deadly & evil of all sins because it’s at the root of all other sins.

Pride was probably Satan’s original sin, when he said, “I will make myself like the Most High”

[Isaiah 14:14, assuming this is describing Satan].

Pride was the bait Satan used to tempt Eve, when he set aside what GOD had said & assured her that if she ate of the forbidden fruit, she would be like GOD [Genesis 3:1-6].

Whenever I sin, I am arrogantly asserting that I know better than GOD knows what is best for me.

Thus, as Christians we must constantly battle pride & grow in humility.

And if you think you’ve attained any measure of humility, you’ve got to be on guard against being proud of your humility!

If anyone easily could have fallen into the trap of pride, it would have been John the Baptist.

Who else in human history [apart from JESUS HIMSELF] could claim to have been filled with the HOLY SPIRIT while still in his mother’s womb [Luke 1:15]!

No one else in human history had the important role of being the forerunner of Messiah [Luke 1:17, 76].

John enjoyed immediate popular success, as all Jerusalem, Judea, & those from surrounding areas were going out to him in the wilderness to confess their sins & be baptized [Matthew 3:5-6].

Even JESUS testified of John that he was the greatest man in human history [Matthew 11:11].

All these things could have fed the pride of this young prophet, barely in his thirties.

Yet in our text John gives his disciples & us a basic lesson in humility.

In the face of JESUS’ growing popularity & his own waning popularity, John gives us a one-liner to live by [John 3:30]:

“HE must increase, but I must decrease.”

Those words are a convenient outline in reverse of John 3:22-36:

“I must decrease” sums up 3:22-30; “HE must increase” sums up 3:31-36.

To the extent that John’s motto is true of us, we are growing in humility.

The story begins by describing two thriving ministries that were taking place close to one another.

We don’t know the exact location of JESUS & John as described here, but both were somewhere along the Jordan River, which they were using for baptisms.

As John clarifies in 4:2, JESUS was not actually performing the baptisms, but HIS disciples were.

These were not Christian baptisms at this point, but rather public confessions of sin followed by immersion in water, which symbolized cleansing from sin.

It’s interesting that even John Calvin, who practiced baptism as sprinkling, admits that the reference to

“much water” indicates that

JESUS & John were “plunging the whole body beneath the water”

[Calvin’s Commentaries [Baker], p.130]!

The apostle added the comment [3:24] that John had not yet been thrown into prison because he knew that his readers would have read Mark’s GOSPEL, which makes it seem that JESUS’ ministry began after John the Baptist was arrested [Mark 1:14].

The apostle John wants us to know that the events recorded here happened before John the Baptist’s imprisonment.

At this juncture [“therefore” in 3:25 is better translated “now” or “then,” indicating a transition to something new],

John reports that a dispute or discussion arose between John’s disciples & a Jew [some early manuscripts read “the Jews,” but the singular is probably original] about purification.

The apostle does not give us any further clarification, so we can only guess at the nature of the discussion.

Probably it had to do with whether John’s baptism was superior to the Jewish rites of purification.

John mentioned those Jewish rites with the water pots at the wedding where JESUS turned the water into wine [2:6].

In the present context, JESUS is the bridegroom [3:29].

HE comes to bring people into a joyous relationship with HIMSELF, not to haggle over Jewish ceremonies.

It’s not outward Jewish ceremonies that purify one’s heart, but rather, the new birth from above.

So John may want us to see here that JESUS’ ministry went beyond the ceremonial legalism of Judaism.

At any rate, the debate between John’s disciples & this Jew may have included the Jew’s comment that John the Baptist’s ministry was being eclipsed by JESUS’ growing ministry.

This led John’s disciples to come to him with their concern [3:26],

“Rabbi, HE who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, HE is baptizing & all are coming to HIM.”

Their exaggeration, “all are coming to HIM,” was no doubt spawned by resentment or jealousy

[D.A. Carson, The Gospel According to John [Eerdmans/Apollos], p. 210].

They were jealous on John’s behalf against JESUS’ growing ministry.

This sets the stage for John the Baptist’s reply [3:27-30], which is a great lesson in humility.

We learn:

Humility stems from understanding who GOD is & who we are.

John the Baptist clearly understood GOD’s sovereignty, who JESUS is, & who he [John] was.

Thus he didn’t have inflated views of himself.

He wasn’t out to build his self-esteem or to promote his own ministry or reputation.

His aim was to exalt JESUS.

He found great joy in his role of handing off the bride to the bridegroom.

1.] Humility stems from understanding who GOD is.

We see this both with reference to John’s view of the FATHER & his view of JESUS CHRIST:

A.] HUMILITY STEMS FROM UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD IS ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN

John replies to his disciples’ worried report [3:27],

bible.org/seriespage/lesson-19-lesson-humility-john-322-30

#learn humility #guard against pride #self-exatation #pride #idolatry #worship GOD in spirit & in truth #worship GOD #glorify GOD #make much of GOD

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hermitmoss · 4 years

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Art, as a reflector, can also judge us in our very act of judging it. In making our decision about what it is we reveal and define who we are.

Robert L. Short, The Gospel According to Peanuts

#quotes #even if you don’t believe in god or fate at least you can believe in narrative #*

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1, 6, 8, 14

1. Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?

I’ve never really paid attention

6. Relationship status?

enriched by a variety of good and healthy friendships

8. Did you wake up cranky?

no, just confused

14. What books are you reading?

just books for classes. actually I recently checked out a book to use as a source for a presentation I was giving and I’ve really been wanting to Actually read it, it’s called The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short. very interesting read. did you know Charles Schulz was a Christian? I didn’t until about a week ago

ask away!

#gelly #thank u kind friend #mar 2019

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Software cracking (known as 'breaking' mostly in the 1980s(1)) is the modification of software to remove or disable features which are considered undesirable by the person cracking the software, especially copy protection features (including protection against the manipulation of software, serial number, hardware key, date checks and disc check) or software annoyances like nag screens and adware.

A crack refers to the means of achieving, for example a stolen serial number or a tool that performs that act of cracking.(2) Some of these tools are called keygen, patch, or loader. A keygen is a handmade product serial number generator that often offers the ability to generate working serial numbers in your own name. A patch is a small computer program that modifies the machine code of another program. Mac store prices. This has the advantage for a cracker to not include a large executable in a release when only a few bytes are changed.(3) A loader modifies the startup flow of a program and does not remove the protection but circumvents it.(4)(5) A well-known example of a loader is a trainer used to cheat in games.(6)Fairlight pointed out in one of their .nfo files that these type of cracks are not allowed for warez scene game releases.(7)(4)(8) A nukewar has shown that the protection may not kick in at any point for it to be a valid crack.(9)

The distribution of cracked copies is illegal in most countries. There have been lawsuits over cracking software.(10) It might be legal to use cracked software in certain circumstances.(11) Educational resources for reverse engineering and software cracking are, however, legal and available in the form of Crackme programs.

History(edit)

The first software copy protection was applied to software for the Apple II,(12)Atari 800, and Commodore 64 computers.(citation needed). Software publishers have implemented increasingly complex methods in an effort to stop unauthorized copying of software.

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data, called nibbles, read from each track to identify the data sectors. This allowed complex disk-based software copy protection, by storing data on half tracks (0, 1, 2.5, 3.5, 5, 6..), quarter tracks (0, 1, 2.25, 3.75, 5, 6..), and any combination thereof. In addition, tracks did not need to be perfect rings, but could be sectioned so that sectors could be staggered across overlapping offset tracks, the most extreme version being known as spiral tracking. It was also discovered that many floppy drives did not have a fixed upper limit to head movement, and it was sometimes possible to write an additional 36th track above the normal 35 tracks. The standard Apple II copy programs could not read such protected floppy disks, since the standard DOS assumed that all disks had a uniform 35-track, 13- or 16-sector layout. Special nibble-copy programs such as Locksmith and Copy II Plus could sometimes duplicate these disks by using a reference library of known protection methods; when protected programs were cracked they would be completely stripped of the copy protection system, and transferred onto a standard format disk that any normal Apple II copy program could read.

One of the primary routes to hacking these early copy protections was to run a program that simulates the normal CPU operation. The CPU simulator provides a number of extra features to the hacker, such as the ability to single-step through each processor instruction and to examine the CPU registers and modified memory spaces as the simulation runs (any modern disassembler/debugger can do this). The Apple II provided a built-in opcode disassembler, allowing raw memory to be decoded into CPU opcodes, and this would be utilized to examine what the copy-protection was about to do next. Generally there was little to no defense available to the copy protection system, since all its secrets are made visible through the simulation. However, because the simulation itself must run on the original CPU, in addition to the software being hacked, the simulation would often run extremely slowly even at maximum speed.

On Atari 8-bit computers, the most common protection method was via 'bad sectors'. These were sectors on the disk that were intentionally unreadable by the disk drive. The software would look for these sectors when the program was loading and would stop loading if an error code was not returned when accessing these sectors. Special copy programs were available that would copy the disk and remember any bad sectors. The user could then use an application to spin the drive by constantly reading a single sector and display the drive RPM. With the disk drive top removed a small screwdriver could be used to slow the drive RPM below a certain point. Once the drive was slowed down the application could then go and write 'bad sectors' where needed. When done the drive RPM was sped up back to normal and an uncracked copy was made. Of course cracking the software to expect good sectors made for readily copied disks without the need to meddle with the disk drive. As time went on more sophisticated methods were developed, but almost all involved some form of malformed disk data, such as a sector that might return different data on separate accesses due to bad data alignment. Products became available (from companies such as Happy Computers) which replaced the controller BIOS in Atari's 'smart' drives. These upgraded drives allowed the user to make exact copies of the original program with copy protections in place on the new disk.

On the Commodore 64, several methods were used to protect software. For software distributed on ROM cartridges, subroutines were included which attempted to write over the program code. If the software was on ROM, nothing would happen, but if the software had been moved to RAM, the software would be disabled. Because of the operation of Commodore floppy drives, one write protection scheme would cause the floppy drive head to bang against the end of its rail, which could cause the drive head to become misaligned. In some cases, cracked versions of software were desirable to avoid this result. A misaligned drive head was rare usually fixing itself by smashing against the rail stops. Another brutal protection scheme was grinding from track 1 to 40 and back a few times.

Most of the early software crackers were computer hobbyists who often formed groups that competed against each other in the cracking and spreading of software. Breaking a new copy protection scheme as quickly as possible was often regarded as an opportunity to demonstrate one's technical superiority rather than a possibility of money-making. Some low skilled hobbyists would take already cracked software and edit various unencrypted strings of text in it to change messages a game would tell a game player, often something considered vulgar. Uploading the altered copies on file sharing networks provided a source of laughs for adult users. The cracker groups of the 1980s started to advertise themselves and their skills by attaching animated screens known as crack intros in the software programs they cracked and released. Once the technical competition had expanded from the challenges of cracking to the challenges of creating visually stunning intros, the foundations for a new subculture known as demoscene were established. Demoscene started to separate itself from the illegal 'warez scene' during the 1990s and is now regarded as a completely different subculture. Many software crackers have later grown into extremely capable software reverse engineers; the deep knowledge of assembly required in order to crack protections enables them to reverse engineerdrivers in order to port them from binary-only drivers for Windows to drivers with source code for Linux and other free operating systems. Also because music and game intro was such an integral part of gaming the music format and graphics became very popular when hardware became affordable for the home user.

With the rise of the Internet, software crackers developed secretive online organizations. In the latter half of the nineties, one of the most respected sources of information about 'software protection reversing' was Fravia's website.

Most of the well-known or 'elite' cracking groups make software cracks entirely for respect in the 'Scene', not profit. From there, the cracks are eventually leaked onto public Internet sites by people/crackers who use well-protected/secure FTP release archives, which are made into full copies and sometimes sold illegally by other parties.

The Scene today is formed of small groups of skilled people, who informally compete to have the best crackers, methods of cracking, and reverse engineering.

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The High Cracking University (+HCU), was founded by Old Red Cracker (+ORC), considered a genius of reverse engineering and a legendary figure in RCE, to advance research into Reverse Code Engineering (RCE). He had also taught and authored many papers on the subject, and his texts are considered classics in the field and are mandatory reading for students of RCE.(13)

The addition of the '+' sign in front of the nickname of a reverser signified membership in the +HCU. Amongst the students of +HCU were the top of the elite Windows reversers worldwide.(13) +HCU published a new reverse engineering problem annually and a small number of respondents with the best replies qualified for an undergraduate position at the university.(13)

+Fravia was a professor at +HCU. Fravia's website was known as '+Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering' and he used it to challenge programmers as well as the wider society to 'reverse engineer' the 'brainwashing of a corrupt and rampant materialism'. In its heyday, his website received millions of visitors per year and its influence was 'widespread'.(13)

Nowadays most of the graduates of +HCU have migrated to Linux and few have remained as Windows reversers. The information at the university has been rediscovered by a new generation of researchers and practitioners of RCE who have started new research projects in the field.(13)

Methods(edit)

The most common software crack is the modification of an application's binary to cause or prevent a specific key branch in the program's execution. This is accomplished by reverse engineering the compiled program code using a debugger such as SoftICE,(14)x64dbg, OllyDbg,(15)GDB, or MacsBug until the software cracker reaches the subroutine that contains the primary method of protecting the software (or by disassembling an executable file with a program such as IDA). The binary is then modified using the debugger or a hex editor or monitor in a manner that replaces a prior branching opcode with its complement or a NOPopcode so the key branch will either always execute a specific subroutine or skip over it. Almost all common software cracks are a variation of this type. Proprietary software developers are constantly developing techniques such as code obfuscation, encryption, and self-modifying code to make this modification increasingly difficult. Even with these measures being taken, developers struggle to combat software cracking. This is because it is very common for a professional to publicly release a simple cracked EXE or Retrium Installer for public download, eliminating the need for inexperienced users to crack the software themselves.

A specific example of this technique is a crack that removes the expiration period from a time-limited trial of an application. These cracks are usually programs that alter the program executable and sometimes the .dll or .so linked to the application. Similar cracks are available for software that requires a hardware dongle. A company can also break the copy protection of programs that they have legally purchased but that are licensed to particular hardware, so that there is no risk of downtime due to hardware failure (and, of course, no need to restrict oneself to running the software on bought hardware only).

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Another method is the use of special software such as CloneCD to scan for the use of a commercial copy protection application. After discovering the software used to protect the application, another tool may be used to remove the copy protection from the software on the CD or DVD. This may enable another program such as Alcohol 120%, CloneDVD, Game Jackal, or Daemon Tools to copy the protected software to a user's hard disk. Popular commercial copy protection applications which may be scanned for include SafeDisc and StarForce.(16)

In other cases, it might be possible to decompile a program in order to get access to the original source code or code on a level higher than machine code. This is often possible with scripting languages and languages utilizing JIT compilation. An example is cracking (or debugging) on the .NET platform where one might consider manipulating CIL to achieve one's needs. Java'sbytecode also works in a similar fashion in which there is an intermediate language before the program is compiled to run on the platform dependent machine code.

Advanced reverse engineering for protections such as SecuROM, SafeDisc, StarForce, or Denuvo requires a cracker, or many crackers to spend much more time studying the protection, eventually finding every flaw within the protection code, and then coding their own tools to 'unwrap' the protection automatically from executable (.EXE) and library (.DLL) files.

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There are a number of sites on the Internet that let users download cracks produced by warez groups for popular games and applications (although at the danger of acquiring malicious software that is sometimes distributed via such sites).(17) Although these cracks are used by legal buyers of software, they can also be used by people who have downloaded or otherwise obtained unauthorized copies (often through P2P networks).

Trial reset(edit)

Many commercial programs that can be downloaded from the Internet have a trial period (often 30 days) and must be registered (i.e. be bought) after its expiration if the user wants to continue to use them. To reset the trial period, registry entries and/or hidden files that contain information about the trial period are modified and/or deleted. For this purpose, crackers develop 'trial resetters' for a particular program or sometimes also for a group of programs by the same manufacturer. A method to make trial resets less attractive is the limitation of the software during the trial period (e.g., some features are only available in the registered version; pictures/videos/hardcopies created with the program get a watermark; the program runs for only 10–20 minutes and then closes automatically). Some programs have an unlimited trial period, but are limited until their registration.

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^Kevelson, Morton (October 1985). 'Isepic'. Ahoy!. pp. 71–73. Retrieved June 27, 2014. The origin of the term probably lies in the activity burglars in the still of the night.

^Tulloch, Mitch (2003). Microsoft Encyclopedia of Security(PDF). Redmond, Washington: Microsoft Press. p. 68. ISBN0735618771.

^Craig, Paul; Ron, Mark (April 2005). 'Chapter 4: Crackers'. In Burnett, Mark (ed.). Software Piracy Exposed - Secrets from the Dark Side Revealed. Publisher: Andrew Williams, Page Layout and Art: Patricia Lupien, Acquisitions Editor: Jaime Quigley, Copy Editor: Judy Eby, Technical Editor: Mark Burnett, Indexer: Nara Wood, Cover Designer: Michael Kavish. United States of America: Syngress Publishing. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1016/B978-193226698-6/50029-5. ISBN1-932266-98-4.

^ abFLT (January 22, 2013). 'The_Sims_3_70s_80s_and_90s_Stuff-FLT'. This can be the only reason you have come to the conclusion that a modified startup flow is the same like the imitated behavior of a protection, like an EMU does it.

^Shub-Nigurrath (ARTeam); ThunderPwr (ARTeam) (January 2006). 'Cracking with Loaders: Theory, General Approach, and a Framework'. CodeBreakers Magazine. Universitas-Virtualis Research Project. 1 (1). A loader is a program able to load in memory and running another program.

^Nigurrath, Shub (May 2006). 'Guide on how to play with processes memory, writing loaders, and Oraculumns'. CodeBreakers Magazine. Universitas-Virtualis Research Project. 1 (2).

^FLT (September 29, 2013). 'Test_Drive_Ferrari_Legends_PROPER-FLT'. Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends-SKIDROW was released with a 'Loader' and not a cracked exe. This is why you see the original exe renamed to 'TDFerrari_o.exe'. As this is not allowed and in this case considerably slows down the game with Xlive messages while starting and playing the game, you can see why we have included a proper cracked.

^SKIDROW (January 21, 2013). 'Test.Drive.Ferrari.Racing.Legends.Read.Nfo-SKIDROW'. Yes our 'method' is a loader and our competitors have used the same method for 'cracking' xlive games like this.

^'Batman.Arkham.City-FiGHTCLUB nukewar'. December 2, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2014. UNNUKED: game.plays.full no.issues crack.is.fine no.single.byte.patch.used protection.bypass.means.not.active.means.removed protection.does.not.kick.in.at.any.point this.or.removal.makes.no.difference (ZoNeNET)

^Cheng, Jacqui (September 27, 2006). 'Microsoft files lawsuit over DRM crack'. Ars Technica.

^Fravia (November 1998). 'Is reverse engineering legal?'.

^Pearson, Jordan (July 24, 2017). 'Programmers Are Racing to Save Apple II Software Before It Goes Extinct'. Motherboard. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2018.

^ abcdeCyrus Peikari; Anton Chuvakin (January 12, 2004). Security Warrior. 'O'Reilly Media, Inc.'. p. 31. ISBN978-0-596-55239-8.

^Ankit, Jain; Jason, Kuo; Jordan, Soet; Brian, Tse (April 2007). 'Software Cracking (April 2007)'(PDF). The University of British Columbia - Electrical and Computer Engineering. Retrieved January 27, 2018.Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

^Wójcik, Bartosz. 'Reverse engineering tools review'. pelock.com. PELock. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.

^Gamecopyworld Howto

^McCandless, David (April 1, 1997). 'Warez Wars'. Wired. ISSN1059-1028. Retrieved February 4, 2020.

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4/1/21 Open 6-10p (s'r'sly). Mask & sanitizer req'r'd. Apologies for the delay. Today, I present "The Gospel According to Peanuts" & "The Parables of Peanuts" by Robert L. Short. "Peanuts" isn't an inherently religious comic strip, but it's always respectful & kind to it's characters & readers. (at Bonnett's Book Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIxIVeDOo0/?igshid=17ge4vwcyxpnl

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New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2021/01/10/elvis-presley-was/

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Elvis Presley started an incredible amount of trends over the years. Not only did the singer popularise Rock n Roll using his blues-inspired music and guitars, he also kickstarted a new collection of fashion trends. His coiffed hair and flared jumpsuits are legendary, prompting fans to copy these styles all the way up to 2021. However, one of the oddest pieces of the Elvis story has to do with his eating habits. According to legend, the singer had a favourite sandwich which had a strange concoction of ingredients.

The Elvis sandwich is a toasted bread sandwich slathered in peanut butter, with banana and bacon inside.

This bizarre collection of tastes and textures has scoured the globe as the King’s favourite snack, and has found itself on a number of restaurant menus over the decades.

Although this snack is world famous, Elvis’ fiancée, Ginger Alden, once told of how it wasn’t really a part of his diet.

The star was engaged to the Jailhouse Rock singer for just under a year before he tragically died on August 16, 1977.

READ MORE: Elvis Presley’s grandson Benjamin Keough paid tribute to at The King’s Graceland birthday

Ginger explained in an interview that, during that time, she never saw him eat the famous Elvis sandwich.

Speaking in an interview in 2014, Ginger spoke candidly about Elvis’ final days in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, where he died of a cardiac arrest.

She said: “There are exaggerations like Elvis wasn’t happy his last year, was depressed.

“Sitting up there eating fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches (which I never once saw him eat one of those the nine months I was with him).”

This weekend was what would have been Elvis’ 86-year-old birthday.

To celebrate the star’s life, Graceland put on a display for fans and visitors to enjoy, in order to commemorate the singer’s career.

His ex-wife, Pricilla Presley, also made a statement on her Facebook account to pay tribute to her ex-husband.

She wrote on the social media website: “It’s difficult to believe Elvis would be 86 today, January 8. I think back and wonder… if he were here today, how would he celebrate in the year 2021?”

Priscilla continued: “It’s not really hard as Elvis was somewhat… a creature of habit. I believe he would be celebrating exactly the same way.

“Having a small amount of his friends, family and his Memphis Mafia all gathered at Graceland. I can almost hear his laugh, see him joking around, and know he would be staying up into the early morning hours… ending at the piano singing gospel songs.

“Elvis, lost in the lyrics, as if no one was around. Then as the song comes to an end and with a slight smile, turns to his guest and nods with satisfaction as everyone applauds for more. Those are cherished moments embedded in my mind.”

She touchingly added: “Elvis was uncomfortable and a bit shy in receiving presents. Your presence was enough. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Elvis.”

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comebeforegod · 5 years

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God’s Protection: Dying One-Year-Old Child Escaped Death

By Xinsheng

On First Receiving the Gospel, I Was Dubious About God’s Existence

One day in October, 2016, my mother and several sisters from the church came to spread the gospel to me. They said that the heavens and earth and all things were created by God and that human fate is in God’s hands. … I did not exactly approve of their words because I held the notion that one’s fate was in his own hands. But out of respect for my mother’s feelings, I still sat down and listened to their fellowship.

In the following more than half a year, a few sisters from the church came and patiently shared God’s word with me. With the passage of time, I found that they were pretty good. Their words and actions were very decent, and they were very loving toward others, different from the worldly people who were abusive, haughty, and schemed against each other. Their living out started to move me little by little and I got to absorb some of God’s word they communicated to me; yet I was still dubious about God’s existence, and felt that attending gatherings was bothersome. Every day, I had a load of household chores to do. Besides, I had to take care of my two children and take charge of my remedial classes. Every day I was utterly exhausted from these things and even if I had any spare time, I would always want to have a rest. For these reasons, I was unwilling to spend my time and energy believing in God, but only verbally believed in Him; I seldom attended gatherings or read God’s word.

My One-Year-Old Child’s Life Was in Dire Danger

On January 11, 2018, the first snow of the year fell and it was surprisingly heavy. Early this morning, I pushed open the door and saw that outside it was all white and the snow was ten to twenty centimeters deep. Just as I was about to go shopping, my fourteen-month-old son Xiaobao, who was eating peanuts, pestered me to hug him. Seeing that I refused to do that, he lost his temper at once: tilting his head back and throwing a tantrum in tears. But suddenly, he stopped crying, which flustered me a great deal. At the sight of the broken bits of peanuts in his mouth, I realized he was choking on the peanuts. He had turned red in the face, unable to cry. So, I hurried to pat his back and press his stomach, but it didn’t work. His mouth and face had begun to become black and blue. Therefore, I hurried to reach into his throat to see whether I could pick the peanuts from it, but it didn’t work either. Seeing he was not going to make it, I felt only too anxious and scared to let out a scream and then started crying. In panic, I suddenly thought of God, and I cried out to God for help in a hurry, “Oh God! Please save my child. He’s not gonna make it.” As I cried, I patted his back. At this time, my husband was also so nervous and scared that he began to cry and hastened to call an ambulance.

I continuously called to God in my heart as I cried, yet my child showed no sign of taking a turn for the better; his body was limp and his teeth were clenched. Afraid that he would probably bite his tongue, I hastened to put my finger between his teeth. At that time, some neighbors came to see what had happened but could do nothing to help us. Seeing my son’s condition, the heavy snow outside, and the slippery road, I started to despair, feeling as though a knife were twisting in my heart. I was shaking all over, crying loudly and shouting again and again, “Xiaobao, don’t scare me. Please get better.”

My Child Was in Critical Condition, Yet Nothing Could Be Done

A short while later, a neighbor drove up. My husband and I hurried to take our son into the car. The neighbor dared not drive too fast on account of the thick snow on the road. All the way to the hospital, my child’s jaws were tightly locked, and I kept my finger between his teeth. Even though he bit my finger and blood ran down it, I still dared not take it out of his mouth, and could only continuously pray to God in my heart. Afterward, his face seemed no longer blue, but his condition had not improved yet. After having a hard time getting to downtown, we got on an ambulance. However, facing my child’s condition, the ambulance doctors could do nothing but watch it getting worse and worse.

After reaching the hospital, my child was taken into the emergency room and I thought he could be safe now. But unexpectedly, after some ten minutes, the doctor told us that the condition of my child was very serious, and that they could do nothing about it. They advised that we move him to the city hospital. This news hit me like thunder from a clear sky: It’s two hours’ drive from here to the city hospital. Plus, it’s still snowing and there might be some delay on the way. Is my child, already in such a dangerous and critical condition, gonna make it that long? Seeing he lay still on the operation table in the emergency room with only his throat moving with difficulty, I fell apart at once, and then leaned over the bench beside the door, I burst out crying. How I wished to bear this torture on behalf of him! But at this point, I felt I was so small that I was unable to do anything about it; I could not suffer on behalf of him, much less save him, nor could the doctor. All I could do was pray to God continuously in my heart, “God! You are almighty. May You save this poor child. He is just over one year old. …”

Meeting With Failures on the Way to the City Hospital

Afterward, the hospital urged that we should hasten to take our child to the city hospital even though they refused to run us there in the ambulance, so we were obliged to search for a private van. When we found one, we immediately got in and told the driver to go hell for leather to the city hospital. Since it was difficult to drive on a snowy road, I dared not ask him to drive faster and all I could do was pray to God continuously in my heart as I cried. On the way, although my child kept clenching his teeth, his eyes stayed open and his eyeballs motionless, except that his face was no longer blue. Sitting beside him, I really dared not look at his face and I also could not bear to see him. Every second seemed so long and they kept me in suspense.

My child’s condition was worsening but yet we were not even halfway to the city hospital. When I felt close to despair, I remembered that when Job encountered trials and lost all his children, he did not blame God, but instead, he said, “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21). I then thought about myself. When seeing my child’s condition, I lived in timidity and fear. Did I have any faith in God? From Job’s experience, I understood that my child was given by God. Then I prayed, “O God! My child’s life is in Your hands. Regardless of whether You will take him away or not, I will accept Your arrangement without complaint, for he was given to me by You.”

On the way, my husband had been calling to contact the city hospital and an ambulance, but either nobody answered our phone or people who answered asked us to dial other numbers, which was absolutely wasting our time. Seeing we were so pitiful, the driver gave us the telephone number of a head of the Otorhinolaryngology Department in the Central Hospital and told us that he had once driven such patients like Xiaobao there directly. After we got through to the head of the department, he said we need send our child there as soon as possible and that they would set about preparing for the operation at once. Then the driver called us an ambulance. Once it came, we hurriedly transferred to it.

I did not know whether it was because of much toing and froing or because my child really could not hold on any longer that he began to froth at the mouth. The ambulance workers said that he was having convulsions and was dying, so they advised us to send him to the nearest hospital to prevent his condition from getting worse first. At this time, I began to wail with anxiety, not knowing what to do, while my husband insisted that our child should be sent to the Central Hospital. Then the sirens went off and we were brought there finally. When my husband put our child on the operating table, the doctor said, “I’m afraid your child is not going to make it, but we will try by all means to save him.” Hearing this, both my husband and I burst into tears. The seconds ticked by as we waited outside the operating room. I felt conflicted inside: I hoped to know the condition of my child as early as possible, but in the meantime, I was afraid to find out, anxious that it would be bad news …

Having Faith in the True God, I Saw a Change in My Son’s Condition

Several minutes later, the doctor came out of the operating room, and said, “Although we have already removed the peanuts from your child’s body, the prolonged oxygen starvation will certainly cause some injury to his brain and heart. The likelihood is that he will be brain dead or die of heart failure. So, you must prepare yourselves for it.” Hearing the doctor’s words, I, who held on to a bit of hope a moment ago, immediately cracked up. At this moment, I thought of a similar experience a sister once told me and also of what God’s word says, “Any and all things, living or dead, will shift, change, renew, and disappear according to God’s thoughts.” Then I prayed, “O God! Everything is in Your hands, and the doctor is also in Your hands. What he says doesn’t count, only what You say counts. Today, whether my child will make it or whether he will be as healthy as before is all decided by You.”

Not long after, my child’s operation ended and he was kept under observation in the ward. The doctor said, “Now your child hasn’t awakened yet. When he awakes, observe whether or not he will cry. If he cries, it shows that his condition is not that serious.” More than an hour passed by, my child awoke at last and looked quite weak. Although he didn’t cry, he first looked around after opening his eyes, seeming wide-awake. When I softly called his name, he reacted and also knew to reach out for something. When I asked him whether he would like to drink some water, he knew to shake his head. Seeing this, my heart was ultimately a bit released. I really thanked God and could not hold back tears of excitement. Shortly after, he began to cry and I was finally relieved.

Appreciating God’s Almightiness and Knowing His Sovereignty

The doctor asked me how long my child had choked on the peanuts. After settling down and thinking it over, I told the doctor that it lasted for almost five hours, from when my child started choking on the peanuts to when he was delivered from danger. This doctor told me that my child had had peanuts stuck in both his lungs, with half a peanut stuck in one lung and a little smaller half in the other lung. He said, “Without oxygen, an adult can keep alive for ten minutes at most and a child for six minutes. Having been in such a critical condition for so long, your child actually made it. What a lucky child he is!”

In the next couple of days, my child made a good recovery. The nurse who put my child on a drip said, “Every year, we will take on some children who, like Xiaobao, had foreign bodies stuck in their windpipe. And there will always be several of them who fail to be saved. Previously, a one-year-old child who lived in the city choked on sausage. It took his family only about five minutes to bring him here; yet when they arrived he had already died.” She also said that it was really rare to meet someone like Xiaobao who was in serious condition yet had made such a good recovery. While my child was in hospital, people kept coming to see him. As his condition was extremely critical and serious when we just came to the hospital, almost all the doctors and patients on the same floor knew about this. They were all surprised that my child was saved and said he was really lucky. Each time I heard them say that, I would offer my thanks to God in my heart because I knew that all this was due to His care and protection.

After being kept under observation for a few days, my child was still rather weak and walked unsteadily. The day before he was discharged from the hospital, seeing that he wavered when walking I felt worried again. I asked the doctor, “Is his tottering a result of being too weak or his sense of balance being affected?” The doctor said, “The CT scan shows that his brain is more or less unaffected and is normal. But it’s still hard to say. Chances are that the prolonged oxygen starvation has resulted in a minor injury to his brain, and the injury is too minor to notice from the CT scan.” The doctor’s words made me more anxious: What if the injury has left its mark and my child will walk unsteadily? Because of this matter, I lost sleep and appetite, and I continuously prayed to God that He can protect my child. On the third day after leaving the hospital, he finally walked as steadily as before. This caused my heart to be entirely released. Thanks be to God! It was Almighty God who gave Xiaobao a second life. All of this was God’s great love!

Making up My Mind to Follow the True God

Replaying in my mind what had happened in these past few days, I was overwhelmed with emotion: As the saying goes, “Accidents happen, life is unpredictable.” No one knows what will happen in the next breath, nor can one foresee it. Had I not believed in God and come before Him, I really did not know what would have happened to my child, and it would also be impossible for my family to have slept so well as now. Thank God for watching over and protecting Xiaobao. He has saved not only Xiaobao’s life, but the whole of my family. I recalled that during this period of time, I had always busied myself doing housework and looking after my two children, as well as going to work, so I seldom read God’s word ordinarily, I disliked praying and attending gatherings, I had never considered my belief in God to be the greatest thing, and sometimes I even had my doubts about God’s existence. I was really too corrupt and rebellious. But God ignored how I disobeyed Him and still protected and kept Xiaobao at the critical moment, so that Xiaobao could escape from danger. God’s love is really too great. This experience made me truly feel that God was with me and truly see His wondrousness and almightiness, and moreover, strengthened my resolve to believe in Him. From now on, I will believe earnestly in God and do my duty well to repay His love!

Once during a gathering, after hearing me relate to this dangerous accident, brothers and sisters all thanked God for His wondrous protection. Then a sister read to me a passage from God’s word, “God created this world and brought man, a living being unto which He bestowed life, into it. In turn, man came to have parents and kin and was no longer alone. Ever since man first laid eyes on this material world, he was destined to exist within the ordination of God. It is the breath of life from God that supports each living being throughout his growth into adulthood. During this process, none believe that man lives and grows up under the care of God. Rather, they hold that man grows up under the love and care of his parents, and that his growth is governed by the instinct of life. This is because man knows not who bestowed life or from whence it came, much less how the instinct of life creates miracles.”

She went on to say, “All of the heavens and earth and all things were made by God. Our lives are given to us by God, so are those of our children. Although God arranges for parents to take care of their children, yet in reality, children all grow up under God’s care. It is God that rules over their fates; their health, their lives and deaths, their fortunes and misfortunes are all not in the hands of their parents. But, being arrogant and blind to God, we humans often say, ‘One’s destiny is in his own hand.’ Are we not too unreasonable? This experience of yours allows us to know these aspects of the truth like God is the source of human life and human fate is controlled by His hands, and to confirm from within our heart that God’s word is true and trustworthy.”

After hearing her fellowship, I recalled that in the past, in my belief in God, I merely acknowledged that God rules over our fates in word, without confirming it from within my heart. Although the sister had read this passage of God’s word to me before, I did not take it seriously. It was only through this experience that I truly inferred its deep implications. When my child was in a crisis, both the doctors and I were unable to save him. But when I truly looked to God and relied on Him in despair, I saw His wondrous deeds. It is God who allowed my child to escape from danger and gave him a second life. This made me truly feel that God is our sole reliance. Thereupon, I made up my mind to follow God and was willing to walk the path of believing in God and following God, to seek the truth, and to do my duty well to repay His love!

Later, I actively took on hosting duties. Having seen God’s great power and wondrous deeds, both my husband and my mother-in-law support my belief in God. I thank and praise God from the bottom of my heart. All the glory be to Almighty God!

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aquariusinterpreter-blog · 7 years

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Virgo female: The Vessel

Principle: Principle of Reconciliation. Virgo makes amends in the world, healing and otherwise contributing to mankind. Virgo woman must take control of shaping her own character and thwart her penchant for being molded by others' actions or demands. Only then can she claim her birthright of being a guardian angel to humanity and fully embrace her sign's motto, " I serve." Planetary symbol: The sign of Mercury. Virgo's traditional ruling planet portrays the hymen-crossed body, like that of the Venus symbol, with the additionally activated mind marked by the glyph's antennae. Whereas the planet points to cerebral and social behavior in the mental air sign of Gemini, also under its rule, for the substantial earth sign of Virgo, it illustrates a need for min-body connection, as well as moral purity. Sign Quadrant: The zodiacal quadrants correspond to the metaphysical planes of existence - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The Second Quadrant is that of emotional environment, wherein a person's feelings about the world are of prime concern. Virgo is compelled to behave according to her conscience; moral virtue is her modus operandi. Sign glyph: The glyph of Virgo is the M for Mother Earth. It stands for Demeter, goddess of the harvest, who in her virgin aspect Kore is the Virgo. The M Glyph's crossed arm suggests modesty and instrospection. Virgo must ask herself, like the harvest goddess, how she will reap and sow in the world. Element+Quality: The earth element connotes materiality and substance; the mutable quality, a call for versatility and change. Together the mutable-earth combination particular to Virgo is best illustrated as pliable clay that can be transformed in a fiery furnace - just as the magma bubbles at the earth's "core," a word stemming from the associative goddess Kore, the virgin of the sign. Polarity: Females in feminine (earth, water) signs are aligned with the gender polarity of the sign and embody the quality-element combination of the sign. The mutable-earth Virgo woman is a gorgeous lump of clay, typically molded into an hourglass-shaped vessel. She wants to be useful, productive, and sustain a happy life for herself and others. Sign Number: 6 The number is six is related to sex, and more than just etymologically. The hexagram is a tantric symbol of erotic union: The two intertwining triangles signify the male and female engaged in sacred intercourse. It is the seal of Solomon whose book is the only potentially erotic big of the Bible. Let's face it, the Virgo can't get around the holiness of horninness. Single Age Association: 35-42 Old maidenhood. At the metaphoric crossroads associated with this age, she's forever faced with a dilemma: whether to give up her (virgin) independence for the loaded and unreliable prospect of partnership. She wonders if time and energy couldn't be put to better 6th House use. Psychology: Virgo may suffer from emotional blocks and arrested development. She can be highly neurotic, particularly about familial ties, to which she often clings. Easier said than done for her to be of service, as she is often overly dependent on siblings and plagued by resentments over loved one's successes. She can be a fair-weather friend, appropriating the mannerisms of people whom she must then, as a result, discard. Archetype+Myth: Virgo draws on the archetype of Demeter, the harvest goddess who loses her "daughter" Kore, really herself in maiden form. Virgo is likewise concerned with her own passing youth and mortality. Virgo corresponds with harvest time, when bounty gives way to barrenness. Bereft that Kore must live half of the year in Hade's house, Demeter, called Pandora ("all-giver"), punishes the earth with winter. Virgo can be just as generous or withholding depending on her whim. Myth's other Pandora (here: "all given") is molded out of clay, entrusted with a vase, and warned not to open it. Can of worms, Virgo, seen in this light, can be notoriously reliant on others, with often disastrous results. Bible+Literature: Virgo draws on the character of Mary Magdalene. According to the Gnostic Gospel of Mary, she was loved better than the apostles by Jesus, echoing Virgo's typical role as an indispensable disciple to those she worships. Scholars say a vase of holy oil was her totem, just as Grecian Pandora had a jar or box. Mary was a sacred harlot who thus embodied both sides of the moral equations, just as Pandora's jar contained both virtue and vice. Mary lives on in such unexpected literary figures as Peter Pan's Wendy: Like the Magdalene, she is the consummate den mother, most beloved by Peter Pan but resented by his boy band. Everybody's little sister, Virgo can be likened to Sally Brown of Peanuts fame. She is embodied in Eliza Doolittle, the cockney Galatea.

Source: Sextrology

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