Points To Ponder 08/24/2013

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POINTS TO PONDER:
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Integrity is like oxygen; the higher you go, the less there is of it. Paul Dickson
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BIBLE QUIZ: 
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Old Testament/Stories of Solomon and the kings who followed him (I Kings 13:18 ff)

. . . He (the old prophet) said unto him, I am a prophet also as you are; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied to him. So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, But came back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your carcass shall not come unto the sepulcher of thy fathers. And it came about after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for him, for the prophet whom he had brought back. And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcass. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD had delivered him unto the lion, which had torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke unto him.

Why would the old prophet lie to the man of God? What is the moral of this story?

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