Tag: lost

  • Taw – Psalm 119

    Taw – Psalm 119

    Psalm 119

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    This is the final letter of the acrostic poem, a series of posts which began with the Hebrew letter Aleph.

    Most Bible references are from the resource: http://www.biblegateway.com/ and most research references, including KJV linked to Strong’s Concordance, are from the extremely helpful online site:  http://www.blueletterbible.org/

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    Taw [Tau]

    169 Let my cry come before you, O Lord;
    give me understanding according to your word!

    KJV Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD:

    give me understanding according to thy word.

    Is this not the very heart of prayer before God?

    Is this not our very need to understand God through Scripture?

    170 Let my plea come before you;
    deliver me according to your word.
    171 My lips will pour forth praise,
    for you teach me your statutes.
    172 My tongue will sing of your word,
    for all your commandments are right.

    173 Let your hand be ready to help me,
    for I have chosen your precepts.
    174 I long for your salvation, O Lord,
    and your law is my delight.

    Though the Lord chooses us to be His, even by adoption, He does not coerce us to follow Him.  As Adam, we may choose obedience or choose sin.

    As Christ Jesus, the new adam, a second son of man who was before the first; He does not coerce our Christian life, either; though He laid down His Life for our sin.

    Choose Jesus as Lord or choose death and punishment for your sins.

    175 Let my soul live and praise you,
    and let your rules help me.

    Genesis 2:7 KJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soulH5315

    1 Chronicles 29:13 KJV Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise H1984 thy glorious name.

    Jeremiah 20:13 KJV Sing unto the LORD, praise H1984 ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

    176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,
    for I do not forget your commandments.

    Isaiah quotes this last verse of Psalm 119 in prophesying the coming of our Savior, the Good Shepherd.

    Look upon the Cross of our Savior and upon your own sin.

    Isaiah 53: 

    6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
    and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

    7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    yet he opened not his mouth;
    like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he opened not his mouth.
    8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
    and as for his generation, who considered
    that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people?
    9 And they made his grave with the wicked
    and with a rich man in his death,
    although he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.

    10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
    he has put him to grief;
    when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
    he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
    the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
    11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
    by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
    make many to be accounted righteous,
    and he shall bear their iniquities.

    And be also comforted by the last verse of the Psalmist; for our Lord, Christ Jesus also quoted it, and He knows well your soul.

    Matthew 18: 12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 

     

  • A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 11

    A Picture of Heaven – Chapter 11

    (For those of you who missed our last episode, these are the roaming thoughts of a man at a funeral.)

    QUOTES from: “Ten Shekels and a Shirt,” Paris Reidhead, (1919-1992) Sermon on Judges 17, c.1945-47

    For a long time, I had thought about the missionary’s words, yet hadn’t thought of it again until now.  I had decided that I guess everybody knows about heaven, but I didn’t know if I really wanted to go there either.

    It’s not that I loved my sin… well, some of it… but heaven and hell didn’t seem real enough.

    I didn’t really get the picture of Heaven and I could not bear to even imagine any vision of hell.

    Then I thought about the corpse of my friend in the casket and had some comfort about the upcoming burial, instead of a cremation.

    And something else that missionary had said captured my mind, as I once again stared out on the cross and took in the sad music.

    * “Yes, will not the judge of all the earth do right? The heathen are lost and they are going to go to hell not because they haven’t heard the gospel.

    *They are going to go to hell because they are sinners who love their sin and because they deserve hell… I didn’t send you to Africa for the sake of the heathen.”

    *“I sent you to Africa for my sake. They deserved hell, but I love them…

    And I endured the agonies of hell for them. I didn’t send you out there for them. I sent you out there for me.

    Do I not deserve the reward of my sufferings? Don’t I deserve those for whom I died?”

     I thought about “Amazing Grace.”

    Hadn’t I heard that he was once captain of a slave ship?

    “A wretch like me,” “a wretch like me,” kept ringing in my head.

    I once was lost

    But now am found

    Was blind,

    But now I see.

     

     

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