Counterfeit Is Taking Over Our Lives And Nation

                                         Proverbs 6:1
                   "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if
                    thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger"

        
        The "pledge," or security for payment, which, for example, David was to bring back from his brothers (1Sam. 17:18). So the word was used quite often in the primitive trade transactions of the early Israelite's. In the warnings against this surety-ship, in the Book of Proverbs, we may trace the influence of contact with the Phoenicians. The merchants of Tyre and Zidon seem to have discovered the value of credit as an element of wealth.
         A man might obtain goods, or escape the pressure of a creditor at an inconvenient season, or obtain a loan on more favorable terms, by finding security. To give such security might be one of the kindest offices which one friend could render to another. Side by side, however, with a legitimate system of credit there sprang up, as in later times, a fraudulent counterfeit.
        The word "counterfeit" has been in play for many centuries. It is not just money or products that have become counterfeit; it is also "people."  People have become so false with each other, and themselves that it has let Satan slide more and more counterfeit into this evil world. My friends, it's time that we battle this before our Country falls apart. Let's Put God in Charge of things from the Government to Individual House Holds!
        Amen!!

Reading: Pro. 6:1-19)

                                      May God Bless You
                                       And Your Families

                                                     Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                     The Cross Life Ministry