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j g bellett Woollen and Linen - Examples from the scriptures of those who have mixed truth with error.  J G Bellett was a brother from the United Kingdeom who wrote his works in the 1800's.  He examines mixtures in the Bible such as the Parable of the Tares, Lot and Sodom, Jonathan  and the Palace, the Days of Ahab, Jehoshaphat, Obadiah  and others.
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Themes Stubbornness

IVAN

Ivan would not eat.

Day after day, he stood tall and proud next to his pool watching all the people go by. Day after day, a man, who cared very much about Ivan, tried to coax him into eating. Ivan refused. He stayed beside his pool. He stood and watched the people. However, he would not eat.

Ivan was polar bear - a 950-pound polar bear. He lived at the Los Angeles Zoo. As far as the zoo keeper knew, Ivan had never missed a meal in his life until the second Tuesday in June.

On this Tuesday, Jim, the zoo keeper, came to open the heavy gate that divided Ivan's living space in half. Ivan was in the front room. He had spent a lazy day standing, sitting and lying beside his pool, watching hundreds of visitors stroll past.

"Come on, Ivan!" Jim called, as the huge heavy gate clanged open. He paused to listen for the familiar pound of Ivan's paws on the pavement. Nothing! Ivan was not moving. Jim frowned.

"Come on, Ivan!" he yelled again. "I do not have all night!" Usually, Ivan would lumber from his daytime quarters, under the heavy gate, and into his nighttime quarters without having to be coaxed. Why? Because he was hungry! Ivan knew there was a huge meal waiting for him in his nighttime quarters. Ivan never missed a meal. Food was his life!

It is hard to imagine that a polar bear would NOT feel like eating. In the wild, polar bears eat everything. They eat berries, fish, other animals, even people. No wonder they weigh almost 2000 pounds. No wonder they can hibernate and sleep for the winter.

Ivan did not go to his nighttime quarters that night or the next night. Or the next. For 21 days, Ivan did not eat, and he did not leave his daytime quarters. No one knows why. Ivan was stubborn. He was going to do what HE wanted to do. No one, not even the man who knew about him and cared for him the most would change his mind.

Are you like Ivan sometimes? Do you always do what your parents want you to do? Do you always do what God wants you to do?

Can you think of anyone who is completely the opposite of Ivan? The Lord Jesus always did what his Father in Heaven wanted him to do. Why? The Bible tells us Jesus, "I and my Father are one." That means that even though Jesus was born as a human baby and grew up to be a boy and then a man, He was always the Son of God. God was His Father. He did everything God wanted Him to do. He was never stubborn. Even when "the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world" (1 John 4:14), "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy 1:15).


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