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The Ministry of Health and Healing
their children into their own homes. The doorpost of every house
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was marked with blood, and all were to abide within the protection
assured by this token. So today parents who love and fear God are
to keep their children under “the bond of the covenant”—within the
protection of those sacred influences made possible through Christ’s
redeeming blood.
Of His disciples Christ said, “‘I have given them Your word; and
... they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.’”
John
17:14
.
“Do not be conformed to this world,” God bids us, “but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Romans 12:2
.
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For
what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what
communion has light with darkness? ... And what agreement has
the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living
God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them and walk among them.
I will be their God, and they shall be My people.’ Therefore ‘Come
out from among them and be separate, ...
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.’
‘I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty.’”
2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
“Gather the children.” “Make them know the statutes of God,
and his laws.”
Joel 2:16
;
Exodus 18:16
, KJV.
“‘Put My name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.’”
Numbers 6:27
. “‘All peoples of the earth shall see that you are called
by the name of the Lord.’”
Deuteronomy 28:10
.
“The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples,
Like dew from the Lord,
Like showers on the grass,