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You live with secret fear that something is going to get you eventually. Cancer. Heart failure. A maniac with a machine gun. A drunken driver running through a stop light. A germ that no one has identified yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe grim reaper seems always to be sharpening his sickle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNot just you. The whole world seems under threat. The more we study the world, the more reasons we seem to have for fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut, as we say, being forewarned is being forearmed. Knowing your enemy is the biggest part of the battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs I write these lines, I know that somewhere there is an answer to every question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA friend told me he has cancer. A terminal disease? Possibly―possibly not. Dr. Bernie Siegel says, “Cancer is just a word, not a sentence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTerminal? Only because our knowledge is terminal. We run out of knowledge, then we run out of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe good news is the promise of immunity. Protection. It is a real promise. “You shall not be afraid . . . no plague shall come near your habitation . . . a thousand shall fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eReal promises made by God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhat do they mean and how can you make them work for you? 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Our pastor doesn’t use the old songs of the church, the ones I grew up with. Instead he has all kinds of new songs and choruses. Scriptures. The psalms. And I don’t like it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“I understand your problem,” I told him. “I know how you feel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTruthfully, I do understand and I do know how he feels. I grew up with the songs of John and Charles Wesley, Fanny Crosby, P.P. Bliss, and D.S. Warner. These were the “old” songs. Written in the last part of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth, these were the heritage songs. I know them. And I love them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBut these are not the songs that Jesus sang when he worshiped in the synagogue. Strange to say, those century-old songs are the new ones. 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In the light of it, one of two things is true. Either Spurgeon’s mind was shallow, or the book of Ephesians is deeper than most of us have imagined.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"tab-stops: 67.5pt right 252.95pt left 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in 7.5in 8.0in 8.5in 9.0in 9.5in;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eTo my knowledge, no one has dared to suggest that Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a slow learner. While still in his twenties, he pastored the largest congregation in London, England. It grew from five thousand to ten thousand people and became the center of religious activity for scores of other groups. 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