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"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." - 1 Corinthians 9:16 KJV It was the winter of 1988. I was in Arlington, Virginia and working for a company called Atlantic Security Agency - 1 year after an honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps. One night, after work, I begin to drive around the city of Alexandria, Virginia - in a brand new car I had just purchase. I had over $900.00 dollars in my pocket. And a loaded .45 pistol laying in the passenger seat. I was looking for a spot where I could shoot myself through my head and kill myself... You see, I was in a state of depression. The previous week I had binged on hundreds of dollars worth of crack cocaine. One weekend, I must have visited over 5 crack houses...stayed up the entire weekend...and ate virtually nothing. I would always find someone to point me in the right direction as to where I could find the "good stuff." Sometimes it was a woman. I never had sex with her. I only wanted the crack. But this particular night, I had had enough. I did not want to smoke crack anymore. I did not want my weekends spent in states of paranoia, in and out of depression. I just wanted to die.... But as I sat in a deserted parking lot, in downtown Alexandria, Virginia I could not complete what I had set out to do. One memory begin to haunt me as I sat with many tears flowing and not having any sort of direction or meaning in life. It was the memory of one day in my childhood - growing up here in Fordyce, Arkansas - when I was a 11 years old, and walking through the woods in the back of the house. I would love to walk through these woods and look at the trees, the insects and hear the birds chirping. On this particular day, as I was walking through the woods and looking at the beautiful shafts of sunlight shining through the trees, I became aware of an overwhelming prescence. It was so overwhelming that it penetrated every fiber of my being. Even though I was still very young, I knew what that presence was. At that very moment I was aware of the presence of the Lord Almighty. I had no idea that I was about to embark on a journey of much hardship and suffering before I became the preacher I am today... That night in a deserted parking lot in Virginia, I felt His presence again. But it was not time for my salvation yet. In one night and day, I packed up what I could carry, left my good job, my apartment and all of its furnishings and moved back here, to Fordyce, Arkansas. And not only did I leave these things behind, but I also left crack cocaine behind...forevermore. No rehab. No 12 step course. Just cold turkey. The Lord had other plans for me. But not yet. As I write this, I am aware I am leaving out whole sections of my life. Some may have had much influence on my personal road to salvation. But these have been written to give you some idea of who I am. And I am not ashamed of who I am and I am not ashamed of my past. If it wasn't for the Lord allowing me to go through the many trials that I had gone through, I would not be the man of God I am today. That is not boasting. It is just a testimony. "But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." - 2 Corinthians 10:17 KJV I could talk about when I left Arkansas and went to Toledo, Ohio in 1990. Or when I moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1992. Or when, in the year 1999 I left and went to Houston, Texas. I wasn't moving because I got bored. I wasn't moving because I had an long-distance relationship with someone. I wasn't moving at all. I was running from the Lord. During the time I was in Tacoma, Washington...a preacher I had met on the street gave me a pamphlet concerning salvation and told me that the Lord had placed a serious call on my life and that I needed to stop running from Him and submit to His will. I was given Ezekiel 2 and 3 and told what that ministry was. My response? No way. My attitude was that I wanted nothing to do with preaching and after having a father who was a preacher and seeing how corrupt other so-called "men of God" were, I wanted no part. I threw the pamphlet into the gutter... I shouldn't have done that. Because you can run, but you can't hide. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." - Psalms 139:7-8 KJV When Jonah ignored God's call to preach to Nineveh - and instead turned and tried to flee to Tarshish from His presence, God came after him, causing a tempest in the sea to toss the ship around that he had gain passage on. He knew why this was happening, that the Lord was after him, and convinced the sailors to toss him into the sea - and right into the jaws of a certain big fish...where he spent three days and three nights inside this creature's belly. In Houston, Texas in the year 2000 I experienced the consequences of ignoring God's call on my life and trying to run from His presence. I ended up serving 6 months in the Texas Department of Corrections... The details of why I ended up in prison are closed and sealed because they deal with Enron and the resulting scandal. I was a corporated security supervisor. But the real reason why I was in prison for 6 months all had to do with God's plan. I immediately knew why I was there. That night, as I sat on the end of the bed, in a state of deep depression and confusion, a light shined right through the window in my cell door and as I looked, it illuminated a Bible that had been placed on my bed. I was born and raised in church. My father was a preacher. But I did not know what it said. That night, sitting on the floor beside my bed, I flipped through the pages of this Bible and ended up on the Gospel of John. And I begin to read it. And as I read it, I came to the following Scripture: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." - John 15:13-14 KJV At that moment, in the spirit, it was if I had been supernaturally transported into that upper room on the night that Jesus was about to be arrested in the garden of Gethsemane - even though I was sitting in a jail cell in Houston, Texas. And at that moment, I broke down and wept, telling the Lord how sorry I had been and then surrending my entire life and will over to Him... During that 6 months, I read and absorbed the entire Word of God. After I was released from confinement I went and read and absorbed the entire Word of God, again. As I left Houston, Texas and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and begin to absorb sermon notes, study notes, commentaries from Matthew Henry, Charles Spurgeon and John Calvin. And I begin to preach and haven't stopped. I can't stop. How can I when I know that men are being damned each hour by thousands, and that each time my pulse beats another soul lifts up its eyes in hell, being in torments? How can I, knowing how men and women are speeding on their way to destruction, how "the love of many waxeth cold" and "iniquity doth abound." Is there not a necessity laid upon me? Is it not woe unto me if I preach not the gospel? Can we not see thousands annually ruined? Up from the hospital and the asylum there comes a voice to me, "Woe is unto thee, if ye preach not the gospel." Why don't we go to the huge places built around with massive walls, enter into the prison cells and see the thieves, murders, and child molestors who have for years spent their lives in sin. A voice shall come from each house of correction, from each prison saying, "Woe is unto thee, if ye preachest not the gospel." Go to the thousand death-beds, and mark how men are perishing in ignorance, not knowing the ways of God. See their terror as they approach their Judge, never having known what it was to be saved, not even knowing the way; and as you see them quivering before their Maker, hear a voice, "Minister, woe is unto thee if thou preachest not the gospel." Put your ear at hell's gate, and for a little while listen to the commingled screams and shrieks of agony and despair that shall lend your ear; and as you come from that sad place with that doleful music still frightening you, you will hear the voice, "Minister, Minister! Woe is unto thee if thou preachest not the gospel. With these things before my eyes, I must preach... Stop preaching? Let the sun stop shining and I will preach in darkness. Let the waves stop their ebb and flow, and still my voice shall preach the gospel; let the world stop its revolutions, let the planets stay their motion and I will still preach the gospel. Until the fiery center of this earth shall burst through the thick ribs of her brazen mountains, I shall still preach the gospel; till the universe and earth dissolve in fire and matter shall be swept away, these lips, or the lips of some others called of God, shall still thunder forth the voice of Jehovah! We cannot help it! Necessity is laid upon us, yea woe is unto us if we preach not the gospel! I was a former crack user, alcoholic and smoker. I have also done prison time. But, I am also much more than that. I am an ambassador of Christ: "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5:20 KJV). I am a minister of Jesus Christ: "But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses..." (2 Corinthians 6:4 KJV). And I am part of Christ's royal priesthood: "But yea are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." (1 Peter 2:9 KJV). Thank you my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from saving and delivering me from a path destined to hell! Thank you my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for calling me into the ministery to teach your Holy Word and to lift up your name before the congregation of the saints. I will serve you all the days of my life... Not renouncing, but repeating, and ratifying all my former covenants with God, and lamenting that I have not lived up more closely to them, I do solemnly make a fresh surrender of myself, my whole self, body, soul, and spirit, to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; my Creator, Redemer, and Sanctifier; covenanting and promising not in any strength of my own, for I am very weak, but in the strength of the grace of Jesus Christ, that I will endeavor this year to stand complete in all the will of God." Thank you, my 360 friends for your mail, your comments and your encouragement. Words cannot express the gratitude that I feel for each and every one of you. My prayers are place before God's altar continuously for you and many blessings I pray for you all. Pray my strength in the Lord. May God continue to bless you all and to keep you... Minister Arlee Turner Jr.
1. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that there is a God, an incomprehensible, perfect Being; a Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, and truth, having His being of Himself, and giving being to all things. I believe that the living annd true God is but one. And that in the unity of the Godhead there is a trinity of persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and that these Three are but One God, the same in substance, equal in power, and glory. This is a revealed mystery which I do believe, but cannot comprehend. 2. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that this God, who was God from eternity, did in the begining of time, create, or make out of nothing, the world the heaven, and earth, and all things visible and invisible, and this He did by the Word of His eternal power, in the space of six days, and all very good. And that the same God does, by the same power, uhold and maintain the creatures in that being which He at first gave them, by the constant concurrence of providence, for by Him all things subsist, from the highest angel to the lowest worm. And that this God in the right of creation and preservation, is the supreme absolute sovereign and rector of the world, ruling and governing all His creatures and all their actions, according to the wise, holy and eternal counsel of His own will, to the praise and glory of His own name. 3. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that God, as the governor of the world, hath given a law to His rational creatures, according too which they are to walk, in order to their glorifying and enjoying Him. And that to the present sonns of men, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are given, as the only rule to direct them both in faith and practice. That this Book of Scripture was given by inspiration of God, holy men speaking and writing as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. And that this is the foundation of all revealed religion, and a perfect sufficient rule of direction to the children of men. 4. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that God made man upright in His image, consisting in knowledge, righteousness and holiness, with dominion over the inferior creatures. And that He made a covenant of works with him, promising life, upon conditon of a perfect and perpetual obedience, threatening death upon disobedience; and giving him a command of trial, not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good an evil upon pain of death. 5. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that man being left to the freedom of his own will, at the instigation of the devil, sinned against God in eating the forbidden fruit, and so fell from his estate of holiness and happiness; and he being a common person, all his posterity fell with him into an estate of sin and misery. That all the sons of men are born children of disobedience, wanting orignal righteousness, and under a corruption of the whole nature, slaves to the flesh, the world, and the devil. And consequently children of wrath, obnoxious to the justice of God, and the condemnation of the law. And that no creature is able to deliver them out of this condition. 6. That God having from all eternity, of His mere good pleasure, elected a remnant of mankind to everlasting life, did in infinite wisdom, find out a way to save and deliever them out of this sinful and miserable estate, and to bring them into a state of salvation; and that was by giving His only begotten Son to be their Redeemer, who being God, and one with the Father, according to the determinate counsel of God, did, in the fulness of time, take upon Him our nature, a true body, and reasonable soul, and became man, being conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, and called Jesus. I believe that this Jesus was the true Messiah, promised to, and expected by the patriarchs under the Old Testament. That He lived a holy sinless life, and fulfilled all righteousness, being made under the law; that He underwent the miseries of this life, the wrath of God for our sins, and as a sacrifice for sin died a crused death upon the cross, thereby satisfying divine justice for the sins of man, and so reconciling us to God, and bringing in an everlasting righteousness. That He was buried, and that having conquerored death, He rose again the third day, and having commissioned His apostles and ministers to preach the gospel to all the world, He ascended into heaven, where He is and continues to be, God and man, our prevailing Intercessor with the Father, and the glorified Head over all things to the church. In all this glorously executing the three great offices of Prophet, Priest, and King. 7. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that in Jesus Christ there is a new covenant of grace made and published in the Gospel, the tenor of which is, that all those who in the sight and sense of their lost and undone condition by nature come to Jesus Christ, and truly repent ofall their sins, and heartily renounce the devil, the world, and the flesh, and all their own righteousness in point of justification, and by a lively faith cordially resign themselves to Jesus Christ as their Prince and Savior, covenanting to be His humble servants, and serving Him accordingly (sincerely though not perfect), in all manner of Gospel obedience, shall have all their sins pardoned, their peace made, their persons justified, their natures sanctified, and their souls and bodies eternally saved. 8. I, Minister Arlee Turner Jr., believe that the Holy Spirit doth effectually apply the redemption purchased by Christ to all the elect, by working in them that which is required of them, convincing them of sin, enlightening their minds with the knowledge of Christ, revewing their wills, and not only persuading them, but powerfully enabling them to embrace Jesus Christ, as He is freely offered in the gospel. And that the same Spirit continues to dwell in them, and to work all their works in them, weakening their corruptions, strengthening their graces, guiding their way, comforting their souls, witnessing their adoption, enabling them more and more to die unto sin, and to live unto righteousness, and keeping them faithful and stadfast unto the end. 9. I believe that all true believers make up one invisible sanctified church, which is the mystical body of Jesus Christ, receiving vital influence from Him as from their Head, and as such hath institued ordinances for worship and discipline, which are to be observed and kept pure in particular churches, and hath appointed the standing office of a gospel ministry, for the due administration of those ordinances, to the edification of the church, and hath promised to be with them always to the end of the world. 10. I believe that God hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained, who will raise the bodies of men from the grave, and judge them all according to their works, sending the wicked, impenitent, and unbelievers, into everlasting punishment, and receiving the righteous into life eternal, to be together for ever with the Lord. And that then He shall deliver up the kingdom the God, even the Father, that God may be all in all to eternity... Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord; shew me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of my observers. Minister Arlee Turner Jr.
"I thought on my ways" - Halt! "I turned my feet unto Thy testimonies" - Right about turn! "I made haste and delayed not to keep Thy commandments" - Quick March! - Psalm 119:59,60 KJV The general scriptural significance of repentance, then, is to turn, right about face. Repentance, applied to man, means "to go the opposite way and to do the opposite thing, based upon deep sorrow and remorse for and hatred of sin" - and such remorese and hatred - or abhorrence - usually come from a sight of God and His holiness. But you know what? I am beginning to find out for myself - and I have for quite a while - that generally people do not want their conscience disturbed so the message of repentance is seldom preached. Yes, I said seldom preached. Militant conservatives and destructive liberals alike are guilty of the abandonment of any truth distasteful to the ears of the self-satisfied, or that which is difficult to enforce. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears..." - 2 Timothy 4:3 KJV This generation, with all its religion, has lost the sense of sin and pays preachers to "Prophesy smooth things." Repentance is robbed of its true significance. The plow of conviction is never driven deep into the human soil. So-called "revivals" and "evangelistic efforts" produce shallow results because of the shallow repentance preached. Deep mourning for sin, hot, scalding tears of repentance, souls writhing in agony because of their burden are not common as they used to be. Saved and unsaved alike are not over-awed by the august holiness of God and the filthiness of their own evil nature. The sob of anguish, "Woe is me, for I am undone," is seldom heard in a religious service today. Instead, young people and others walk down our aisles to make a decision for Christ with a giggle on their faces. Statistically-minded, the church counts numbers. We go out for quantity. God seeks quality. If sin is slurred over and repentance belittled, there cannot be depth or stability. The more thoroughly conscience is disturbed and stung on account of sin, the more solid and enduring the results when the Gospel is preached. It must be shown that repentance is indispensable to salvation (Luke 13:3). The prodigal must return in sorrow if he is to be reinstated - the rebel must submit before clemency can be exercised and favor bestowed - the sinner must repent before relations with an offended God can be restored. This is why the call to repentance rings out in resonant tones from the pages of Scripture. What a different world this would be if the repentance of Nineveh could be repeated, when all, from the Ruler down, were covered with sackcloth and cried mightily unto God (Jonah 3)! Repentance may be a bitter, drastic pill for our sin-sick generation to take, but it is necessary if the needed spiritual healing is to be experienced. May God raise up fearless witnesses who will preach repentance until men repent and turn to the Saviour, because the preacher whose witness lacks the urgent, vibrant note of repentance is neither in the prophetic line nor in the Apostolic succession. This present age, desiring to be left undisturbed in its sinis, must be aroused. Saturated with worldliness and indifference, the multitudes must come to know the urgency of the call, "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." You cannot, as some sort of self-proclaimed prophet or evangelist, improve upon the message of the prophets in the Old and New Testaments. If, as one saint puts it, "Repentance is that deep and radical change whereby a sinner turns from his idols of sin and self unto God, and devotes every moment of the inner and outer man to the captivity of His obedience," then away with your church's "popular ideas," and give us the preaching producing Holy Ghost conviction and conversions. What is true repentance? What is not? It is profitable that I, as a minister of Jesus Christ, show you the false and true views of this basic doctrine. Because right thinking is essential to right living, let us get to the heart of the matter. What Repentance is not: The negative approach brings us to what a man is prone to think repentance is. Satan, who seeks to counterfeit any Bible truth, has certainly suceeded in creating a false estimation of the one we are presently considering. 1. Repentance is not the mere presence of tears. Some people have a natural softness and tenderness of heart. It is easy for them to weep. Their liquid grief flows over the least thing. They weep easily over another's misery, but never over their own sinful condition. The story of the cross appeals to their pity, and they shed drops of grief - not because it was their sin that nailed Christ to the cross, but simply because He suffered so. Their tears are not of the repenting kind. Furthermore, superficial tears are of no avail, either. When afflicted, many cry, "Lord, have mercy on me!" Ahab rent his clothes, but not his heart (I Kings 21:27). His eye was watery, but his heart was like flint! How many there are who are made sensible of their sin and who shed copious tears, but who, after the tempest of conscience is past, have dry eyes! 2. Good notions are not repentance. We know only too well that bad notions can be stirred up in the godly, and good notions in the ungodly. Herod had good thoughts and inclinations as he listened to John's preaching, but never truly repented. He murdered the Baptist, and lived on in his sin. 3. Solemn vows and resolutions are likewise substitued for repentance. In times of adverstiy, promises are made to to God, but as quickly forgotten as made, when brighter days dawn. How many there are who, upon a bed of sickness, covenanted with the Lord to follow and serve Him if only He would raise them up! Graciously He restored them, but their part of the bargain was not kept, and they walk about as a living lie. 4. Now here's one that should stab at the heart of those who practice "religious legalism": Repentance is not necessarily the leaving off of sins. True repentance, of course, results in the abandonment of all that is alien to God's holy will. Too often, however, people exchange one sin for another. There may come reformation in one direction, but degeneration in another. All counterfeit repentance, then, must be shunned. If a broken bone sets wrong, the surgeon must break it again and set it right. All who desire to be born anew must be deeply convicted of sin in the divinely prescribed way. But repentance is not salvation nor innocency. Repentance cannot save. Christ alone can blot out the sin of a guilty past. Repentance after God's order is always just but never easy. To sin no more is indeed a task too hard for mortals, but through grace they can sing, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory!" What Repentance is: Several ingredients make up genuine repentance. First of all, there is humiliation (Leviticus 26:41), revealed in "attrition," that is, the breaking of the heart as when a rock is broken; God's Word as a hammer functions in this way (Jeremiah 23:9). Then there is contrition, or that brokenness of heart referred to as the smiting of the breast (Luke 18:13); plucking of the hair (Ezra 9:3); watering the couch with tears (Psalm 6:6). The Word of God, as fire, melts the heart, as heat melts ice into water. All humiliation, however, does not end in deep contrition. There must be a sincere grieving for sin because of its dishonor to God, as well as its defilement of the soul (Jeremiah 31:18,19). "The seal is set upon the wax when it melts; God seals His pardon upon melting hearts." If, in repentance, sin is only regarded as a failure of duty to one's self, or one's neighbors, due to natural infirmity, then repentance for wrong doing will not be accompanied by deep conviction. But if sin is seen to be against God - an infraction of His will, a challenge to His authority, a reflection on His wisdom, a doing despite to His love - the a true repetance will be wrung from the soul, ad in the throes of penitence, it will be abased before God. Too many are sorry simply because their sin has been discovered; the shame of exposure hurts their pride. Others are disturbed by reason of the temporal loss or suffering sin entails. Sin defiles the soul's glory; it is a plague, a sore; it changes glory into shame (Joshua 7:11; I KIngs 8:31), and must be repented of. Such unrepentd sin has the devil for its father; shame for its companion; death for its wages (Romans 6:23). Without this repetance, there is final damnation. There is no sacrifice so pleasing to God as a broken spirit - broken because of the sight of the heinousness of sin (Psalm 51:17). Repenting tears of this sort are the joy of God and of angels (Luke 15:7-10). Mary brought her tears and ointment to the feet of Jesus (Luke 7:38). Of the two, the tears were more precious to Him. There is also sweetness in repenting tears. "Weeping days become festival days." The Hebrew word for "repent," nicham, means "to take comfort." Sorrow is turned to joy (John 16:20). Christ turns the water of tears into wine. Through a Spirit-produced repentance, although bitter at first, comes true sweetness. God comforts those who mourn for sin committeed againist Him (Isaiah 57:18). One of old cried, "Lord, wash my tears in Thy blood." When "we drop sin with our tears, we need Christ's blood to wash them." The reverend Matthew Henry's comment is - Repentance is a daily duty: he that repents every day for the sins of everyday, when he comes to die will have the sins of only one day to repent of. Short reckonings long friends. With "Contrition" there is "confession" and "conversion," or a turning to God. "We have sinned" - this is confession; "They put away their strange gods" (Judges 10:15,16) - this is conversion. The repentant confession of sin is not for the ears of a priest or a man, but God only (Psalm 51:4). Such confession should never be more public than the sin confeseed. Confession of this sort shuts the mouth of hell and opens the gates of Paradise (Psalm 32:5). Negative and positive sides are herewith combined. We confess our sin, and turn from it to God. This is "repentance toward God" (Acts 20:21), and results in remission. Such a repentance, however, is a condition, not the cause of salvation. Christ alone can save, and once He blots out our confessed sin, sin must be forsaken. "If we hide one rebel, then we are traitor to the crown." Transformation follows, seeing that a genuine repentance works a change in the whole man. After the recognition of wrongness and wrongdoing (Joshua 7:6; I Samuel 7:6; 15:24; Luke 15:18; I John 1:19), and the putting away of same, a change is recognized in many directions. For instance, there is a change of mind. (Matthew 21:29; II Timothy 2:25). Realizing how corrupt and deformed we were, and how damnable our sin was, our mind is changed concerning its nature. We become penitent. Repentance brings a change of judgment (Jonah 2:9; Acts 26:9; cf. Philippians 1:8). Feelings are reversed (Job 42;6; II Chronicles 33:12). Action and attitude are changed (Ezekiel 18:28; I Thessalonians 1:9,10). Affections are transformed. We come to hate what we once loved (Psalm 119:104). Instead of rejoicing in sin, there is sorrow for it. Life as a whole is completely revolutionized, seeing that God begins with the heart. Mary Magdalene, who kissed her loves lustfully, came to kiss Christ's feet in worship. The break with sin must be through. All sin, whether secret, habitual or public, must be shuned, not out of fear, but because of a disgust for sin produced by a vision of divine holiness and sacrifice for sin (Daniel 4:27). Repentance toward God must mean a spiritual divorce lasting until death. It is not enough to repent for our sin, we must leave it and become lost in God's service. The repenting Prodigal not only came to himself; he came to his father. Leaving the harlots and the swine, he was reinstated in the joys and privileges of sonship. When repentance is true, then the heart turns directly to God as the needle of the compass to the north pole, and the fruit and works worthy of repentance follow. When a sinner repents, turns to God through Christ, he is sure to be comforted by the touch of the divine hand. The Chinese proverb has it, "Repentance is the May of virtues." When men repent in the Biblical way, a brighter and fairer day dawns... May the Lord continue to bless you and keep you all is my sincere prayer... Arlee Turner Jr.
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