What happens when Sybil-resistance is ignored in Web3? Disaster and destruction of many projects and ideas full of potential. So then, what happens when Sybil-resistance becomes available with ease on the largest modular L2 network? It turns into a field of gold. Humanode is happy to announce that the Biomapper c1 SDK is now available on @MantaNetwork, the go-to multi-modular ecosystem. For those new to Biomapper, the Humanode Biomapper is one of the core tools of Humanode, a cryptobiometric Layer-1 Blockchain where one human = one node = one vote, known for its use of private biometrics to fight Sybil attacks. It is the tool that not only keeps the biometrics private and secure from third parties, but it also keeps the data secret from even Humanode. All the system will ever know is if the face that it just scanned is in the system or not, and ensuring that the face is only tied to one account or wallet address. No matter how two-faced a user can be, unless he biologically has two faces, one user, one account can be made the standard with just a few lines of code for those who build on Manta. For those interested in adding Biomapper to their built apps, or have brand new ideas for possible services you can build with Sybil-resistance on Manta, check out the SDK and the developer's guide below! Biomapper App: https://t.co/yXl2929M90 Biomapper Docs: https://t.co/OIOzC19dN8 Biomapper SDK: https://t.co/Fg65IYrtrk How to integrate: https://t.co/vQhBAA3CRY

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Test boycotts top 50% on LI as large opt-outs continue #OptOut# #OptOut2018# #LIOptOut# Local school leaders say the pattern of resistance, established over several years, will be hard to break... https://t.co/UwNuaaIw7x

Cost Basis Distribution data highlights three key levels likely to shape short-term #Ethereum# price action: 🔹$1,457 – 408K $ETH 🔹$1,546 – 822K $ETH 🔹$1,598 – 725K $ETH These zones may act as near-term support and resistance as price consolidates. https://t.co/7NAz1CVfEj

Another Question to the Hon’ble Minister today in Parliament : Given the fact that Starlink refused to share critical data with Indian authorities citing data privacy laws, how does the Govt of India plan to deal with such resistance from Elon Musk’s Starlink on data sharing and the potential misuse of Starlink?

Bitcoin Chart Support Levels: $81,600 (short-term defense), $80,000 (major psychological support; breaking below could trigger panic). Resistance Levels: $83,500 (first resistance) $85,000 (second resistance). A sustained move above $87,000-$88,000 would confirm a trend reversal.

"most prefer to dance kumbaya" is vibes, not reality. From where I'm standing, there's basically universal agreement among researchers that gas limit increase features are top priority for glamsterdam. @adietrichs and others in ER have this as their primary focus: delayed execution, block-level access lists, 4444, gas pricing changes, all things that can together enable gas limit -> 300m (not 100m) If the functionality is done sooner than glamsterdam, then glamsterdam itself can happen "sooner than glamsterdam". I'm seeing a lot of willingness to do faster hard forks post-pectra with near-zero pushback. And all the other things are already in the pipeline. 7702 solves the "click two times to swap" thing, that's in pectra (though it requires wallet support). Based rollups are making rapid progress (@taikoxyz and @NethermindEth Surge are good to follow here). Long-term AA (7701) is being aggressively simplified (thank you @yoavw!) so that we can get the benefits of abstracted verification (with censorship resistance) with minimum load on consensus spec.

You don’t understand Vietnam. You don’t understand Asia. And frankly, you don’t understand power. You speak of "destiny" like some overconfident schoolboy mistaking American suburbia for geopolitical insight. Let me say it clearly: Vietnam is no one’s vassal. Not China’s. Not America’s. Not anyone’s. We didn’t spend a thousand years resisting Chinese dynasties just to roll over today. We didn’t shatter French colonialism and bleed the most powerful military in the world to death in the jungles of Quảng Trị just to be told what our "destiny" is by someone who thinks Canada is the model for sovereignty. You confuse proximity with submission, and trade with dependence. That’s your first fatal error. Vietnam shares a border with China—yes. But we also share something deeper: A memory. Of war. Of peace. Of resistance. Of cooperation. And unlike you, we understand the psychology of coexisting with power. We know how to draw lines—how to defend them when we must, and how to keep the peace when it serves us. Your comparison to Canada is not only lazy—it’s insulting. Canada gave up its spine long ago. Vietnam never had the luxury. We learned to survive when survival meant fighting giants. Canada outsourced its soul to Washington. Vietnam forged its own. You think strategic autonomy is impossible? You’re already behind. Vietnam already has it. We trade with China. We trade with the U.S. But we serve neither. We hosted Biden. Then we hosted Xi. Then we hosted Putin. That’s not vassalhood. That’s leverage. That’s multipolarity in motion. You're stuck in a binary world—one where you're either a satellite or a superpower. That worldview is collapsing, and you don’t even see the cracks. And here’s the part that stings the most, isn’t it? Vietnam, a country bombed into the Stone Age, is walking into this new world with more dignity and independence than your empire ever had. We don’t need 800 bases to feel strong. We don’t need to sanction the planet to stay afloat. We don't need to threaten war to be heard. We just stand. And we endure. While your empire panics over TikTok and builds trade policy out of fear, Vietnam navigates history with memory, clarity, and will. So no—we are not destined to be anyone’s vassal. We were forged by fire. You were softened by comfort. And as the empire you worship drowns in its own debt, division, and delusion, Vietnam will still be here. Anchored by history. Sharpened by struggle. And free by choice. Don’t mistake survival for subservience. Don’t mistake proximity for control. And don’t ever mistake Vietnam for a pawn. We were born in resistance. And we don't kneel. Not then. Not now. Not ever.

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“Accha sila diya tune mere pyaar ka, Yaar ne hi loot liya ghar yaar ka.” This song perfectly sums up India–US ties today. We offered unflinching loyalty, but in return, the Trump Administration has imposed the Trump Tariff that could wreck the Indian economy. With this backdrop, today in Parliament, I questioned the Union Minister for Communications: Question 1: Shouldn’t the Indian Government withhold the necessary approvals for Elon Musk’s Starlink to use that as a bargaining chip in order to re-negotiate the Trump Tariffs? Question 2: Given the fact that Starlink refused to share critical data with Indian authorities citing data privacy laws, how does the Govt of India plan to deal with such resistance from Elon Musk’s Starlink on data sharing and the potential misuse of Starlink?

Got my eyes on @TDCCPMEME || $TDCCP 👀 TDCCP is not just a meme. It’s a decentralized movement. Born from meme culture, TDCCP uses blockchain as its weapon to satirize and challenge authoritarianism. In the face of censorship and forced delistings, we did not fade—we surged. They’ve built one of the most unified communities in blockchain history, gaining global momentum and unstoppable growth. At $2.39 and a $1.5B market cap, TDCCP has officially surpassed Solana’s meme project Bonk. This is not hype. This is not luck. This is a revolution. Freedom. Resistance. Blockchain innovation. TDCCP IS THE MEME THAT FIGHTS BACK. ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! 🔥🔥🔥 📊DEX: https://t.co/LuXefHjvkw 🌏 Website: https://t.co/mGcNs1EFI1 💬 Telegram : https://t.co/ReilXPeLyS #TDCCP# #MemeRevolution# #TakeDownTheCCP#

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$ARKEO Airdrop 🪂 to $ATOM $OSMO $JUNO stakers 🥩 - April 3rd 2025 🥶Code freeze: end of January 🛠️Audit: February 🚀Mainnet: April 3rd What is Arkeo? 🔸 @Arkeonetwork is a Cosmos SDK-based chain, for a decentralized marketplace for blockchain data. 🔸Supported chains at genesis: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, and L2s. $ARKEO Airdrop - legacy info - NOTE THIS MAY CHANGE: Also this was when Airdrops were fun - not the fucking monkey guess work with no payoff that they are now. 🔸Rolling snapshots began November 22, 2022 at 22:00 UTC and ended on April 10th, 2024 🔸 $OSMO $JUNO $ATOM stakers are eligible 🔸Minimum time-weighted average balance is $500 worth is required over the time of rolling snapshots 🔸 2x Airdrop for stakers to Shape Shift DAO val 🔸 $OSMO LP providers and others may be eligible 🔸Cosmos Airdrop is 25% of the overall airdrop or 6.25% of total supply 🔸🔸 Stake 15+ $ATOM with with our Sponsor @EverstakeCosmos for a chance to win cool Cosmos NFTS: https://t.co/11hIxEiH4f🔸🔸 $ARKEO distribution when claiming Airdrop: 🔸1/3 is sent to users when they claim their airdop 🔸1/3 is send to users after they delegate Arkeo tokens to a validator 🔸1/3 is sent to users after they have voted in governance $ARKEO Claim window 🔸6 Months 🔸All unclaimed airdrop tokens are sent back to the reserve. ➡️The initial proposed airdrop spec https://t.co/29n67FvVsj 🔸Arkeo, originally incubated by the @ShapeShift DAO, has not had any VC funding or other additional investment. Instead it has been built as an entirely community driven open source project. 🔸 Designed as a decentralized blockchain data network, allowing participants to provide or access blockchain data in a raw or indexed manner, fostering an open, permissionless marketplace for web3 applications and services. ➡️Importance of Arkeo 🔸Arkeo democratizes the provision and access of blockchain data, offering compensation to node operators and enhancing data accessibility for dapps and web3 applications. 🔸Supports the decentralization and censorship resistance of crypto applications by ensuring a decentralized infrastructure for blockchain data, deemed crucial in a landscape with growing government scrutiny. Huge shoutout to @ninjarobot for spotting and taggin - kudos friend! 🤝 Source: https://t.co/ZJ5bkgHBZ6 🔗Links ➡️Web: https://t.co/tGApWQFtms ➡️Discord: https://t.co/lDucX8QeUS ➡️Source: https://t.co/axRm89Uf4m ➡️Arkeo ShapeShift Proposal https://t.co/6y9JIiuVH2 ➡️Airdrop Claim details https://t.co/VxYgGJdBlo https://t.co/FgyIaZJWQT 🫡

Walking in His Spiritual Enlightenment 2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest on me. Weakness makes us imperfect. Weakness is the flaw in perfection. With it, we are deemed as sheep to be slaughtered because weakness will lead us into temptation. Once tempted, many of us are like Eve, clueless about what to do next except to fall into it. Temptation is nothing to be desired as it is nothing but evil. Hence, Jesus taught us to pray that our Father will not lead us into Temptation but will deliver us from the evil one. Jesus further warned us to: "Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak." That is, our bodies are weak, and whatever we hope to achieve is different from what we can achieve. We can have the best intentions, but they are hard to fulfil because of our inherent flaws: weakness. It is like having an underpowered car that does not allow us to go the extra mile. Having an underpowered car is not a big issue as long as it gets us somewhere. However, having weakness means we have a low resistance to temptation. If ever we fall in, we fall into the pit of no return. Then, it can be a treacherous issue. Eve was one of many being clueless when tempted. Even great men like David and wise men like Solomon were clueless, too. If not, they would not have fallen into sin. We must understand that only if there is a need, then there is a desire. It is similar to the phenomenon of hunger. If a man is hungry, he will naturally desire to eat. If not, he might not be tempted to eat. Likewise, a weakness is like a hunger that opens our appetite to temptation. Paul understood the struggle when he said, "For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do." Nevertheless, it is absurd to hear from Paul, a ruthless man of command and control who has little control over his weakness. That is, weakness is not limited to the non-achievers or losers, who are undetermined or foolish, but it transcends to the superb, mighty, wise, or ruthless. Therefore, no matter who we are or where we are in life, we are plagued with weaknesses at our level of competency, so we do not do the good we want but the evil we do not wish to do. At this instance in the epistle of Romans, Paul was quick to dismiss his responsibility for his weakness by saying, "And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin living in me that does it." Paul disassociated his sinful behaviour as if it had nothing to do with him but the sin living in him. We can link his behaviour to that of Adam, who told GOD, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it." Indirectly, Adam was blaming GOD for the woman He gave him for inducing him to eat from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil and causing him to disobey Him. He was an innocent party, and whatever happened had nothing to do with him as he was caught in the web of decision-making, of which none was his. From Adam, we can see the birth of man's weakness, and after Jesus was crucified, died and risen, Apostle Paul still held on to the Adamic weakness of the attitude that it has nothing to do with me. Paul was as clueless as Adam. Indeed, Adam did not make any decisions on his own except to give all the animals and his women their names. He had all the decisions made for him. GOD chose the woman for him as his companion, and the woman chose the fruit that he should eat. Even though GOD had warned him against eating the forbidden fruit, Adam made no reservations about eating it as his woman gave it to him. He had no reason to doubt the woman that GOD gave him would do him harm. Even if he did not trust GOD, he would not doubt her, who is the DNA of his bone and flesh. Adam trusted Eve and listened to all the decisions she made. He did not utter a word during the conversation between the Serpent and his woman as he watched passively beside her. He did not clarify the misconception when the Serpent distorted the truth. He left her to assume wrongly as the Serpent misled her. When Eve gave him the forbidden fruit, Adam could have rejected it, but he did not because he, like many, could not say no to their flesh. In other words, Adam was the sheep, and his woman was his shepherd. Is there anything wrong with that? Yes, when we listen to the wrong voice and do not do what is right, our whole life will be a mistake. GOD told Cain, "If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it." The moral is that we must do right if we want to straighten our lives, and it is more than not doing wrong. Adam did not do anything wrong. He did not take the forbidden fruit, but it was given to him as one of the fruits of the garden. Therefore, he was clueless about what went wrong when GOD questioned him when he went into hiding. Only Eve had the answer, and that is, the Serpent deceived her. Therefore, contrary to the belief of many, Adam was punished because he ate the forbidden fruit, but that is only the secondary reason. The main reason GOD said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat." The issue is not about eating but listening, which causes the outcome, which is man's downfall. The voice he obeyed determined his action, resulting in his fate. Listening to the wrong voice was the first step of a thousand miles in the wrong direction. The difference can be between life and death. Despite being warned, why did Adam do it? Adam was stuck in a tug-of-war between GOD's restriction and his woman's inducement. Between the two of them, he had to choose one, and he chose his woman. There was little of a choice. It was either he betrayed GOD, his creator and provider, or himself, as the woman was his bone and flesh. From then till now, little has changed. Many men will still choose themselves over GOD, succumbing to their flesh within or without, causing themselves much grief. David and Solomon were among one of them. Despite their greatness, they could not control their flesh. Therefore, it is not without reason when Jesus said, "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple." Therefore, without the element of hate for anyone, including ourselves, who will turn our ears away from GOD's instruction, we cannot be Jesus's disciples. Adam could not do it for GOD, but approximately 2000 years and 21 generations later, a man did it for GOD. He was Abraham, and he listened to GOD faithfully to the extent of even sacrificing his only flesh and blood, his son. For him, GOD was also willing to sacrifice His Son, so through Abraham's lineage came Jesus. Therefore, because of Abraham through Jesus, we become a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvellous light. Hence, anyone who wants to have life must eat his flesh and drink his blood. The implication is that Christ's DNA is in His flesh and blood, and to eat his flesh and drink his blood is to take on His DNA of obedience and listen to GOD. Therefore, the blood of Christ proves its effectiveness once we are willing to listen. After the fall of man, there is a change in plan. The woman took on a new role and became a separate entity from Adam. She was given a name, Eve, to signify the change. Before that, all the animals were given names except Eve because she existed as an integral part of Adam as she came from his rib. She was his extension of him and, figuratively speaking, like his tail, following wherever he went. She did not exist as an individual. After the fall, GOD switched Eve's role from one dictating Adam to one submitting to him. For that reason, GOD said to Eve, "Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." If Eve had been submitting to Adam and not ruling over him, that statement would be redundant. It is like asking a child to clean his room when the room has been cleaned. Eve was no longer the voice that Adam listened to. In the new spiritual structure, Eve's voice has been replaced because GOD ordained Adam to rule over Eve, and Eve has to listen to Adam. The new voice will be of Adam's new flesh, not Eve, but his fallen nature. And this voice is passed on to us like an inheritance. We know of it from the next scene of Cain and Abel's offerings. GOD mentioned that sin is crouching at Cain's door, desiring him. What does sin desire Cain to do? It desires Cain to steal, kill and destroy, which is the modus operandi of Satan. The next thing we know, Cain killed Abel. From this, we know sin as his inner voice manages to convince Cain to kill. Cain did not manage to master the compulsion of his sinful nature, which led him to be punished. GOD has a reason to use the Serpent as the personification of Satan and Eve, the flesh, to show how the spiritual world connects to a man in the relationship between Satan, the flesh, and man. As depicted in the book of Genesis, the Serpent never once spoke to Adam directly, only to his woman. Many might take this for granted, as that is how things happen. Do not take any details for granted, as secrets of enlightenment might be hidden behind them. The puzzling thing is that when God asked Adam about what had happened, Adam was clueless even when he was with Eve during the whole conversation with the Serpent, as if the conversation between them was viewed from him. Only Eve had the answer. What can we infer from them? Could it be possible there is a gatekeeper between God and man or Satan and man? The gatekeeper of the physical man is his spiritual man, who decodes, translates, and understands all spiritual matters. Though the physical man might be clueless about the spiritual happenings, the spiritual man understands because spiritual issues must be spiritually discerned. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians, "The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned." Therefore, it is possible that Eve, before the fall, was the personification of 'Adam's spiritual man' as the Serpent, Satan. Thus, whatever happened, Eve seemed to know better than Adam. Furthermore, in the Epistle of Romans, Paul wrote, "The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children." Apostle Paul did not write: the Spirit Himself testifies with us that we are GOD's children. He understood the sequence, and when GOD speaks, it is from His Spirit to our spirit. The physical aspect of the man might not be aware of the happening. It is like what happened to Peter when Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood but by My Father in heaven." Apostle Peter must have been clueless about what he said on the spur of the moment until Jesus enlightened him. GOD talks to us and guides us literally in ways we do not know. Therefore, Jesus said, "When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say. For at that time, the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say." GOD's voice is the power within us, giving us the knowledge to defeat our enemies by not falling into temptation so we do not do what we do not want to. Therefore, Paul delights in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties because one word from GOD will change his situation and even his life. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Prayer: Father, thank you for giving us the Holy Spirit to dwell in me, so I am no longer a spiritual orphan. I will be able to discern spiritually the things of God and walk according to God's power and strength. Whether I turn to the right or the left, my ears will hear Your command within me: "This is the way. Walk in it." My ways will be pleasing to you, and I will never be clueless in the face of temptation. Amen.

Matthew 25:45 Then the King will answer, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.' A Paradigm Shift Mark 2:22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins." The New Testament is a game-changer and paradigm shift. It is like new wine that cannot be contained in old wineskin. Hence, we must refrain from using our old mindset to understand GOD's new teaching, or it will become our stumbling block, a block that will cause us to fall away from our faith. When Jesus first introduced His new teaching, many of His disciples could not accept it, so they turned back and no longer walked with Him. His teaching created resistance then and would also now. Today, if we hear something that goes well with us and does not turn us off, then the teachings are most likely being compromised. If the core of His teaching has not changed, then we should have the same reaction as Jesus's disciples did: rejection. It is like drinking bitter medicine. However, if the medicine is not bitter but sweet, then we should be wary that something is wrong. GOD's bitter medicine does not go well with our fallen nature, so rejection should be the natural response. If it sounds soothing to our ears and appeases our fallen nature, then most likely, it is an alternate teaching to His. His fake teaching is like entering through a wide gate with a broad path; do not believe it because it leads to destruction. GOD has instructed us to walk through the small gate with the narrow path that few will find, and it leads to life. And any other way is a misdirection. Therefore, do not be misled by hype teachings that are pleasing to the ear but will lead to destruction. Stop sinning vs forgiveness of sin. Daniel 4:27 Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed.  If we want to be strong in GOD, we must be able to accept hard truths, things that are hard to the ears but good for our souls. Such a message is a high calling because our fallen nature can do nothing but sin. And GOD's Word bites our fallen nature. Therefore, it does not go well with our ears and is a nail to our flesh. A message that our fallen nature loves is the forgiveness of sin, a message of no condemnation to every action. Then, we are no different from a dog that returns to its vomit as we sinners return to our sin. Thus, many Christians live in the comfort of GOD as Yahweh Hessed, GOD of forgiveness. With that, many live in the impression that they can be who they are as there is nothing they can do that cannot be forgiven under the blood of Christ. If not, His blood is no different from that of sheep, goats, bulls, doves, or pigeons. Therefore, nothing can rock their salvation as it is secured in the blood of Jesus.  The Fallacy Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh, will reap destruction, but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit, will reap eternal life. If any of us think that the blood of Jesus will keep us away from sin, we are deviating far from the truth. Forgiveness of sin only releases us from the bondage of sin, which has no eternal value. It is like a person being set free from prison. Then, what from then on? It is what we make out of ourselves after being out of prison that matters. Metaphorically speaking, when we sin, we get ourselves into prison, and when GOD forgives us, He releases us from prison. If we keep on sinning and asking for forgiveness, we are repeating the cycle of being in and out of prison. Then what is the purpose of forgiveness if we have no intention of getting out of sin? We are doing nothing but fooling around with GOD, taking Him as a joke. No one ever fools around with the law and gets away. What more, with GOD, the Lawmaker of heaven and earth, and hope nothing will happen? The all-mighty blood has its limitations. Matthew 12:31 Therefore, I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Jesus's blood is powerful enough to forgive all sins except the sin of unrepentance. For that, His blood has no effect. His blood can cleanse us of all sins but cannot keep us away from sinning. It is written in the Bible that if we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do we think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace? Therefore, there is a limit to 1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, He is faithful and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. No one in the Bible ever received unconditional and perpetual forgiveness like the way we think, sinning without guilt and remorse. GOD often leaves us case studies to substantiate His Word. If there is none, then most likely, we misconstrue His Word. What does it mean to stop sinning? 1 John 3:6 No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. Many times, we have been told to stop sinning, but many do not understand GOD's expectations. To many, as long as we do not cause anyone any grievous harm by killing, stealing, and destroying, we are not sinning. And as long as we do not violate GOD's commandments, we are not sinning. All these are true in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, definitions become more comprehensive. Anyone angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. And anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be subject to the fire of hell. Without physical contact, even looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Therefore, to stop sinning is more than not doing evil. We must do good. The new requirement John 3:19 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Within our fallen nature is the desire to do evil. Therefore, in the Old Testament, after the fall of Adam and Eve, GOD wanted man to master his evil desires, as He told Cain, who represented the new generation of fallen men. In the New Testament, when GOD became Man, man not only had to master the evil within him but also to overcome evil with good. Only the one who overcomes will Jesus grant him the right to sit with Him on His throne, just as He overcame and sat down with His Father on His throne. The requirement has changed before and after Christ. Hence, we cannot use old methodology on new theology as we cannot sew a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. The patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result. Jesus's new teaching will stretch us to be more than who we can be. If we cannot be stretched, we will tear in unbelief. Not being able to say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for us. In Christ, we must do more and be better. Nothing will be impossible for us, even to the extent of loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us, that we may be sons of our Father in heaven. We no longer are allowed to stop at 'Love your neighbour' and 'Hate your enemy.' The truth is that many cannot cross this threshold of irrational demand. Then how many can overcome evil with good? Why must we overcome evil with good? Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. If we can overcome evil with good, it proves the authenticity of our transformation. We are born again in the Spirit, and we are cleaned on the inside of the cup and dish so that the outside may become clean as well. Remember, we have fallen nature and are incapable of doing good. If we have extreme self-control, we can control the beast within us. To overcome evil with good is beyond the capacity of our fallen nature. It is like asking the lion to eat grass. Therefore, if a lion eats grass, it only proves that it is no longer a beast but has morphed into something else. In Christ, we are His new creations, meaning we are more than GOD's creation but a new, improved version. We no longer hold the flaws of imperfection but the perfection of GOD. Therefore, what the fallen nature cannot do, the godly-infused nature can. Hell is prepared for those who do no good. Matthew 25:45-46 Then the King will answer, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.' And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. To illustrate His point, Jesus talked about a time in the future when He would be in His glory, and all the angels would be with Him as He sat on His glorious throne. Then, He would separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. One group would inherit the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world. And the other group would be cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. What good did the first group do to deserve heaven, and what bad did the other group do to deserve hell? No one in the heaven group stood out as any hero, nor anyone from the hell group stood out as any villain. The compliment for the righteous was - For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took Me in; I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you looked after Me; I was in prison, and you visited Me.' Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? When did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?' And the King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.' The unrighteous were accused of not performing any acts of kindness as the righteous did, and their punishment was the eternal lake of fire. The King did not accuse them of massacres or blasphemy against GOD that deserved the lake of fire, but their fate was no different from that of the vilest sinners. The Conclusion Not doing good is as good as sinning, deserving the lake of fire. Many might view this as perversity, as the deeds do not deserve such punishment. On Judgment Day, many will question God about His justice and fairness, not knowing that sin is sin, regardless of how small or big. Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit." As long as the Spirit does not transform us, we are not born of the Spirit. We are still sinners destined for hell. However, the issue is not that many do not want to do good, but they do not have the tenacity to do so because of their fallen nature. Many can try, but they do not have the know-how to do it. If we want to know, we need to die to our flesh. Then, the anointing of the Holy Spirit will guide us. For this reason, our world still feels lonely and cold despite its advancement, vibrancy, and activities. The affluent are highly affluent, and the poor are extremely poor, and the gap is not narrowing. If everyone were anointed with the Holy Spirit and spontaneous in sharing simple essentials such as food, water, and clothing, the world would be a better place. GOD does not require us to save the world by doing great and mighty things because that job belongs to Him. He is our Hero, and we do not need another hero. All He wants us to do is small things with great love. We would have met GOD's expectation of overcoming evil with good. Prayer: Thank you, GOD, for opening my eyes and ears to your word. Let your word quicken my heart and enlighten my mind that they are alive in me so that I can be alive in your word. Then your word will not return to you empty, but it will accomplish what you please, and I will prosper in it. Amen.