#sifted

"Again, one who refuses My messenger can by no means receive My message, and one who judges him has blinded themselves to the Truth. For there is none righteous, no, not one. Yet The One who sent the message is true. Thus the one who delivers My Word must also be its recipient, or how shall I send him? And all those who judge can do nothing and shall receive nothing; even that which they have shall be taken away. Therefore what I have written stays written, and what I have spoken stands.

For the time of choosing has come, all shall be sifted; Even by this Word shall it be accomplished, a great division!…

For as it is written: I did not come to bring peace, but a sword[3]…

Says The Lord."

[3]: Matthew 10:34

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“For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.”

Amos 9:9

Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, “I will sift the house of Israel.” Satan, like a drudge, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy the corn; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing the purity of the grain by the very process which the enemy intended to be destructive. Precious, but much sifted corn of the Lord’s floor, be comforted by the blessed fact that the Lord directeth both flail and sieve to his own glory, and to thine eternal profit.

The Lord Jesus will surely use the fan which is in his hand, and will divide the precious from the vile. All are not Israel that are of Israel; the heap on the barn floor is not clean provender, and hence the winnowing process must be performed. In the sieve true weight alone has power. Husks and chaff being devoid of substance must fly before the wind, and only solid corn will remain.

Observe the complete safety of the Lord’s wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work; he sifts them in all places, “among all nations”; he sifts them in the most effectual manner, “like as corn is sifted in a sieve”; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shrivelled grain, is permitted to fall to the ground. Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweller one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

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Liam Payne will next week auction a non-fungible token collection, becoming the latest artist to jump on the craze of selling digital art.

The One Direction star said on Wednesday he would launch his “Lonely Bug Collection”, which he created during the coronavirus lockdown.

“I’m so excited to drop this collection. It’s been a real labour of love for me over the past few months,” he said.

The artwork, which Payne says is aiming to reflect the childlike state that many people returned to during the pandemic, is multimedia with music from DJ Zedd, animation from Sillygabe and spoken word from Gary Vee.

NFT Craze

Payne joins hundreds of artists and celebrities in jumping on the craze this year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which are a kind of digital asset that exist on the blockchain.

The blockchain serves as a public ledger, allowing anyone to verify the asset’s authenticity and ownership. That is what investors and fans will be buying next week at a 24-hour auction through the popular Nifty Gateway platform.

Some of the best known NFTs this year have been Grimes selling $6m worth of art in March, Beeple selling a video at Christie’s for $69m and an animated meme called Nylan Cat selling for $580,000. The phenomenon has also spawned a whole generation of NFT startups.

In recent weeks the NFT frenzy has abated slightly, with the dollar value of sales falling from a peak of roughly $322m in April to $88m, partly as a result of a drop in the overall crypto markets.

Blending digital and physical

The Lonely Bug Collection is hoping to generate excitement though at least in part because it combines a series of digital artworks with the physical as well.

Part of the audition is the real-world experience of a dinner at a new 3,500-room Resorts World Las Vegas with crypto celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Mike Novogratz, Brendan Blumer, 3LAU , Steven Bartlett, Christian Angermayer as well as Duncan and Griffin Cockfoster.

Payne on Wednesday said: “I can’t wait for this to go live and to see the reaction from my fans, and then to be heading to Vegas later this year to meet with the highest bidders at what promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime event.”

Opening Up

The announced sale of the Lonely Bug Collection comes just days after Payne opened up in a podcast with Steven Bartlett about hitting “rock bottom” during his time at One Direction due to drugs and alcohol.