We continue to pray for world peace. We live in a dying world. Look what is happening in France today.
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The phrase “dead to the world” appears in the Bible in Galatians 6:4, which says, “I am crucified to the world”. John Piper says that this phrase means that when someone trusts in Christ, their old, unbelieving self dies. The new person is characterized by: Trusting in Christ, Enjoying the life of Christ, and Living by faith.
Bottom line: Stand firm in God’s grace as a living hope in a dying world. Peter encourages suffering Christians to stand firm in God’s grace because of the living hope of the cross and resurrection that they have received through the new birth.
After a meeting between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as successful by both sides, Harris gave a short statement that Israeli officials said surprised them due to its harsh tone.
While the two leaders didn’t speak to the press beforehand, Harris delivered a short statement about the meeting afterward.
Israeli officials told media outlets in the U.S. and Israel on Friday that the meeting with President Joe Biden was more constructive that the one with Harris. Despite this, they stressed that the meeting with the vice president wasn’t confrontational, while a Harris aide called it “serious and collegial.”
Therefore, Netanyahu and his team were taken aback by the tone of Harris’ statement, which was “much more critical than what she told Netanyahu in the meeting,” an official told Axios.
After reiterating Israel’s right to defend itself and condemning Hamas and its October 7 attack, the VP said she had expressed to the prime minister her “serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians.”
“I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity.”
“The images of dead children and desperate hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent,” Harris added. The Rest of The Story Here
Why So Much Evil?
“So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts” Eph 4: 17, 18.
The Scriptures call the mind of the natural man “blinded” 2 Cor. 4:4, “depraved” Romans 1:28, “corrupt” 1 Tim. 6:5, and “unspiritual” Col. 2:18. The natural mind thinks from a humanistic, sin-debased viewpoint. The viewpoint of the flesh directs its thoughts. The sinful mind is under the control of Satan and can never please God because it concentrates on things of the world and not things of the Spirit. The natural mind walks the road of hopelessness and self-destruction.
