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WHAT CONNECTS US IS JESUS

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King Solomon warns against giving a pledge for another person. Because how can you promise something for another? You don't know how they will manage the trust you show them. It can go really wrong if, for example, you provide a financial guarantee or are involved in a project where several people are mutually liable.
Solomon encourages us to think before we go into promising something for others. My son, if you have given security for another, given a handshake for a stranger, then you are bound by what you yourself have said, you are trapped by what you yourself have said.
Proverbs. 6,1-2

Every day we meet strangers from other countries, how do we react? Do we show them love, care, and welcome them into our homes?’

The issue of promising something on behalf of others became a discussion in relation to infant baptism in early church history. At the end of the 2nd century, the church father Tertullian was skeptical of the (new) tradition of baptizing children, because how could one as a godfather guarantee the Christian upbringing of the little children? What if they grew up and did not want to follow the Lord, or what if the godfathers died, then one could not fulfill the promise?

In the New Testament we also hear about the word pledge, but here it is Paul who speaks of the Holy Spirit as a pledge.

“AND HE WHO BOTH JOINS US AND YOU INTO CHRIST AND WHO ANOINTED US IS GOD, WHO ALSO SEALED US AND GAVE US THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A DEPOSIT IN OUR HEARTS”. 2 Cor. 1:21-22

Here the pledge is used as an expression that God provides security for us.

One may wonder why God would give a silent assurance to people, but it is nevertheless the case.

BY GIVING YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD HAS BOUND HIMSELF TO YOU WITH A PLEDGE.
The Hebrew word for “SILENT PLEDGE” is the word arav עָרַב and the word has to do with mixing two things together. Therefore, the word can also be used to mean evening עֶרֶב עָרֶב עָרַעוּ, because it is the time when light and darkness are mixed. The word is also used in the word for Arabs (a mixture of 2 peoples) and it is used of the mixed crowd that went out after Moses from Egypt Exodus 12:38

GOD HAS MIXED HEAVEN WITH EARTH IN YOUR LIFE BY GIVING YOU THE HOLY SPIRIT AS A SUPERNATURAL GIFT.

The Holy Spirit shows that God is on your side in the battles of life and that He makes His means available to help you. And he is powerful to help you with all challenges.
Have a blessed day and DO NOT forget the Holy Spirit!

You must have the life of the Holy Spirit in you, Jesus in you

Take Jesus with you in all things, you cannot walk alone without the Light in you, then you will fall and not see the stones before you hit yourself

amen