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News from the month of June, by Marcus

10:22 PM, Friday, July 4, 2008 .. Posted in Newsletters .. 0 comments .. Link

   Greetings from Tlaxcala! We are at rest in the haven that our brethren provide here. Sometime maybe we can go north to visit our brethren in Monett, MO - we'll see when the Lord sees fit to cause the way to be open.
   Two weeks ago we went back to Tehuacàn to have a Sunday morning service, and to look up some contacts in the afternoon.  I was able to preach in the marketplace and in the plaza. We took a minivan that I was diagnosing for a customer, and ended up fixing it in Tehuacàn, since there's a little more parts availability there. That evening we talked with the David Balderas family in Temalacayuca. It's hard for him to accept our teaching on true salvation - obtained by obedience, walking in the light. The apostle Peter puts obedience BEFORE the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, and the apostle John puts walking in the light BEFORE the blood cleansing us from all sin.
   Recently we as brethren (us three families) have been sharing in a home in a nearby town, Zacatelco. It's a Catholic home, Rogaciano and Marìa Guadalupe, and their son and daughter-in-law. They see the way, but just keep saying, 'Wow! That's hard!' This last Wednesday evening when we had the Bible study there, Jaime Saenz went along with us. He has been seeing the light and beginning to walk in it.  On the outside of his mother's house in Mexico City, he painted these words from one of our tracts: 'Jesus will judge this world', 'Woman, your indecent and provocative dress offends God', 'I warn you, homosexual, drunkard, fornicator, foul-mouth, and liar: You are going to the lake of fire.' 'To marry a divorced man or woman is always adultery.' 'To look on a woman to lust after her is adultery.'
   It's really an encouragement to see him beginning to lose himself. Another evidence is, he's beginning to have a full beard. If you have ears to hear, brethren according to the flesh, listen.
   Another thing I'll share from Jaime is this: He wanted me to relate more about my Mennonite background. When I mentioned how the Mennonites baptize, he said, 'Oh, no! That's running a risk! Baptism is being buried (or immersed).' Again, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. It's so amazing to me how when people read the Bible plainly and simply, the conclusion they come to about baptism is, just what the word baptism means.
   We just heard this week that one of the families we used to associate with, and considered brethren, in Versailles, MO, Paul and Tressa Lancaster, had a death in the family. Their oldest boy, Timothy (17) drowned when the family was swimming. I called Marcus Brubaker with a technical question on a vehicle, and the drowning had taken place the very day previous. Later Marcus told me that the Lancaster family, at the viewing, had a guard at the door, refusing to allow entrance to any of the Versailles Remnant families. The family has thrown off their coverings, and has attended here and there lately.
   I told our brethren here last night in our mid-week Bible study and Lord's supper, 'That is exactly where we will end up, or very probably where we will end up, if we get our focus off the Lord and pleasing Him, and following Him.' 'The law of God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide,' Psalm 62 says. It also says, 'Pour out your hearts before him.' Now that doesn't mean just an emotional brothers' or sisters' prayer meeting. It means opening our hearts and allowing the Lord to shine his light on any of those dark rooms that are in there, and with His help, CHANGING and CLEANING UP any thing that doesn't please Him. Amen. Praise the Lord!
                                   --Marcus and family

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