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[The Emmaus Wire @EmmausWire]

Suspect arrested:

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[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

Absolutely.

The Senate needs to PASS the SAVE America Act ASAP.

If we don’t get it done, we shouldn’t leave for recess. Share if you agree.

[Steve @Steve15035293]

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[Steve @Steve15035293]

@DockeryRon3863 @BrysonGray Why do you think that a person cannot stop sinning in this life or repent?

[Steve @Steve15035293]

@Ihunanya_chi The books of John and 1John changed my life.

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

.@olivegarden’s unlimited pasta pass shouldn’t be more secure than America’s federal elections.

It only is because Swamp Democrats NEED fraud to win.

[Steve @Steve15035293]

REPENTANCE A change of attitude and action from sin toward obedience to God. The concept of repentance differs slightly in the Hebrew and Greek minds, but an emphasis upon right behavior is consistent throughout.
Repentance in Hebrew
No Hebrew word is an exact equivalent for the English term “repentance.” Repentance was expressed by a number of different actions that show a change in thinking and attitude toward sin and God. Repentance may be demonstrated by:
• a public display of mourning over sin, such as weeping (Ezra 10:1), tearing garments and/or hair (Ezra 9:3), and wearing sackcloth (Joel 1:13)
• making restitution for wrongs committed (1 Chr 21:22–26)
• abasing oneself before the wronged party (Gen 33:3)
The Hebrew word that most closely approximates “repent” or “repentance” is translated into English as “return,” which basically means “to turn around and go in the opposite direction.” In theological contexts, the implication is to turn from a road characterized by rebellion toward God and to a road characterized by obedience. The emphasis is upon actions that necessarily proceed from turning one’s orientation toward God.
Repentance in Greek
The Greek word for “repentance” derives from a verb meaning “to radically change one’s thinking.” “Repentance” refers to an event in which an individual attains a divinely provided new understanding of their behavior and feels compelled to change that behavior and begin a new relationship with God (Heb 6:1; Acts 20:21). While the Greek language can represent the concept of repentance as an independent action, the Semitic background of the New Testament writers demanded that appropriate actions follow the event of repentance (Matt 3:8; Acts 26:20). Examples of changed behaviors following repentance include:
• Zacchaeus making restitution for the fraud he committed as part of his occupation (Luke 19:1–10)
• Paul preaching the faith he once tried to destroy (Acts 9:1–28)
• Onesimus, the runaway slave, returning to his master, Philemon, to face the consequences of his actions (Phlm 8–16)
James 2:14–26 offers the most explicit comments in the New Testament regarding the relationship between repentance and appropriate actions. James argues that suitable actions will inevitably follow a sincere experience of repentance. The rhetorical question “What good is it …?” (2:14) calls into question not the effectiveness of faith in Christ without accompanying good deeds to save the sinner, but the very presence of that faith if the deeds do not follow. He argues that just as the evidence of biological life in the human body is the basic processes of respiration and circulation, the evidence of saving faith is acts of justice and mercy that arise spontaneously from a changed life (2:18).

Kennedy, Brendan. 2016. “Repentance.” In The Lexham Bible Dictionary, edited by John D. Barry, David Bomar, Derek R. Brown, Rachel Klippenstein, Douglas Mangum, Carrie Sinclair Wolcott, Lazarus Wentz, Elliot Ritzema, and Wendy Widder. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

[Steve @Steve15035293]

5 Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed. 6 He will repay each one according to his works: 7 eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness. (Romans 2:5–8, CSB)

[Steve @Steve15035293]

@FrankLets78822 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  (James 1:22, CSB)

[Steve @Steve15035293]

@BrysonGray Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?  (Romans 6:16, CSB)

[Steve @Steve15035293]

Come to your senses and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.  (1 Corinthians 15:34, CSB)

4 Everyone who commits sin practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he was revealed so that he might take away sins, and there is no sin in him. 6 Everyone who remains in him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen him or known him.  (1 John 3:4–6, CSB)

[Steve @Steve15035293]

@LisaMarieCarson @BrysonGray Everyone who commits sin practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4, CSB)

[Steve @Steve15035293]

2 On that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors. 3 Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem written in the book of life—4 when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodguilt from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning. 5 Then the Lord will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory, 6 and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain. (Isaiah 4:2–6, CSB)

[The Emmaus Wire @EmmausWire]

The full court press for an Israeli-Lebanese peace deal continues in Washington, DC.

[Steve @Steve15035293]

@Vincent_Writes https://t.co/e2Lhj0oXnS

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5 Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed. 6 He will repay each one according to his works: 7 eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.  (Romans 2:5–8, CSB)

This is a good book!

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Most intelligent, principled Republicans are increasingly backing Rubio for 2028. 💥

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Some seriously disturbing declassified files will be coming out in the coming weeks about a Former Member Of Congress placing interns in other offices that happen to be agents of foreign governments. Representative Kat Cammack has legislation that would require background checks on staff and it should be brought to the floor immediately. Also, this is a massive security breach.

[Congresswoman Kat Cammack @RepKatCammack]

@RepLuna H.Res 500 would require background checks and full disclosure of dual citizenship and employment of foreign nations. No surprise to anyone that we are being fought every step of the way. You can help us make sure all Capitol Hill staff get background checks by calling your Rep!

[Steve @Steve15035293]

20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb: “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and “A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire (2 Peter 2:20–22, NET 2nd ed.)