“upright” is two words in one. No one is more “upright” than Jesus on The Cross.
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Question 1: “Where does God tell us to focus on fighting evil?”
Answer: “In Today’s Reading, 1 Sm 15:16-23, God gave King Saul This Instruction: ‘Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction. Fight against them until you have exterminated them.’”
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Question 2: “Did King Saul obey God?”
Answer: “Saul did not ‘exterminate’ what the evil Amalekites had. ‘But from the spoil the men took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to The Lord their God in Gilgal.”
God made it clear that obeying Him was more important than sacrifice. ‘Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams. For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of The Lord, He has rejected you as ruler.’”
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Question 3: “What kind of people will choose to obey God instead of doing what they want?”
Answer: “Today’s Psalm 50:8-23, tells us who is pleasing to God! ‘To the upright I will show the saving power of God. He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies Me; and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God.'”
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Question 4: “What do ‘upright’ people know?”
Answer: “‘Upright’ is two words in one! ‘Upright’ people know how important it is to be ‘up’, close to God, and to be ‘right’ here on earth! That is what makes a person ‘upright’.”
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Question 5: “What are ‘upright’ people blessed to know?”
Answer: “‘Upright’ people are blessed to apply Hebrews 4:12 to our thoughts, words, and deeds. ‘The Word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.’”
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Question 6: “What does That Word of God lead His Chosen People to do in every Age?”
Answer: “God’s Word to King Saul leads us to James 1:27. ‘Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself uncontaminated from the world.'”
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Question 7: Why is protecting ‘orphans’ so important to God?”
Answer: “‘Orphans’ include the helpless children who were sacrificed on the Altars of the Amelekites who worshiped Baal. God sent Saul to fight the Amelekites because He wanted those beliefs to be ‘destroyed’ and children protected.”
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Some things never change. God’s ‘Chosen People’ choose to be ‘upright’. Others chose to be ‘downright wrong’.
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