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THE PERFECT BLEND OF BODY AND SPIRIT!

Man cannot live by bread alone… call to me and I will answer
you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not
know.

ANTHONY PENNY HARDAWAY:

The boy in our story we all know so I won’t mention his name. But for the sake of
conversation I’ll just call him Penny. Now Penny when just a small child was taken by the
parents to be baptized and circumcised as was the law of Moses.

The mother had to undergo purification because she had given birth and any lady who had an
issue of blood was considered unclean for a time. The law had to be completed and this
required a special presentation according to ones income.

The parents lived on a fixed income so they could only afford two doves or two young
pigeons. A man called Simon gave the boy his blessing and the parents gave him the name
Penny. Now Simon was waiting for when the consolation of Israel would come via a boy
Messiah.

The boy was Penny and now seeing that he had laid his eyes upon his deliverance he would
bid the world fare thee well having walked the earth in piety towards God and good will
towards men.

Simon says, “This child is destined to cause many to fall and rise in Israel and be a sign that
will be spoken against so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed”. A prophetess
was there in the temple called Anna.

She spoke many things concerning the boy Penny and she too pronounced her blessings on
the boy, thanking God that this was whom many were looking forward to as the redemption
of Jerusalem.

Mommy wasn’t sure what all this preaching and prophecy stuff was all about but she kept it
hidden in her heart. From that day Penny grew in the wisdom of his heavenly Father and in
the favour of earthly men.

Other children have foolishness bound in their hearts which appears in what they say and do,
but he was filled with wisdom by the influence of the Holy Spirit. Everything he said and did
was wisely said and done, way above his years.

Other children show the corruption of their nature; nothing but the grace of God was upon
him. With that said, why would Penny so cause his parents to trip? He boy had gone yearly
with his parents to Jerusalem for the Passover celebration.