Due to much resistance to Christ by the enemy of Almighty God and Jesus Christ our Lord, I have no additional Christian Social Witness for Resurrection Day this year.
Please COMMENT & SHARE one from our previous 10 years.
Roger Harned +
LISTEN to one of the best arguments of Christians to refute the nonsense of supposedly “scientific” skepticism about the RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST after 3 days in a guarded grave.
“So if they were interested in affirming the fact of his death, all they had to do was take the body and put it in the middle of Jerusalem and say,
“Look, don’t let anybody live with any nonsense. Jesus is dead.”
BUT the body of JESUS was not in the tomb!
Pastor Begg makes a notable case about the RESURRECTION which makes so much more sense than EVERY objection by those who REFUSE to believe in Jesus Christ for their own selfish excuses.
Original post date: 29 March, in the year of our Lord 2022
Today’s topic is scandal!
ASH WEDNESDAY in the year of our Lord 2023, we begin with TODAY’S subject:
Christians in the shoes of Jonah
Repent, Jonah!
It’s raining and you are NOT Noah who will save only his own family from the flood.
The ground is shaking in the year of our Lord 2023 and you are NOT Abraham who will rescue only his family from the evil and the fate of Sodom or the judgment of Gomorrah.
This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: “I, myself, have risen against Babylon! I will destroy its children and its children’s children,” says the LORD.
So YOU claim to be an evangelist of JESUS to the nations?
GO into all the world and preach Good News, the Gospel of forgiveness and eternal life for those who will REPENT of their sinful past and FOLLOW Jesus Christ as our Lord.
The Good News of Jesus’ death and resurrection, however, becomes BAD NEWS to any who turn the other way – in the direction away from God’s grace.
Such bad news for evangelicals! christians who suddenly turn in the other direction + a direction of SELF and a gospel of what God has done for ME (and should do for you).
Have you turned to a path AWAY from the word of God, even like Jonah?
Won’t sailing away from the command of the Lord have dire consequence?
I WON’T PREACH THAT, Jonah responded by sailing away from the command of God.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness
As we have learned in ACTS of the Apostles, disciples are followers of Christ Jesus.
Evangelical christianswho claim His Namebut turn away from God’s command become obstacles to the Lord saving others from the cities of destruction.
At the moment Jonah turned away from Nineveh even this Prophet of God was not an obedient disciple ‘chosen‘ for eternal life.
A last-days appeal to the Evangelical
Evangelicals who claim other cause of the world above Christ cannot boast of the burden of the millstone placed around their necks.
And evangelicals who embrace condemned cultures of the cities of destruction without revealing the cost of the Cross may find the weight of the Cross around their neck weighing down their witness with veiled hope while singing of ME and JESUS.
Scandal – Do you recognize it in the warnings of Jesus?
Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!
“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke 17:2 NKJV
“Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.
Luke 17:3
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he became angry.
Then the LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
– Jonah 4:4-5
The Millstone
“It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck..
Does this punishment (even self-inflicted) remind you of Jonah?
And he said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.”
the movable stick or trigger of a trap, a trap stick
(And evangelicals with ears to hear, now hear this:)
any person or thing by which one is (entrapped) drawn into error or sin
Scandal: fig. applied to Jesus Christ, whose person and career were so contrary to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah, that they rejected him and by their obstinacy made shipwreck of their salvation
Is your faith scandalous because you dare Talk of JESUS?
‘But I have a few things against you, because you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumblingG4625 blockG4625 before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
Your comment on this post and these Scriptures encourage the witness of this author. RH (original post date 29 March in the year of our Lord, 2022)Thanks.
