Tag: zechariah
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Grace for the Everyday Sinner in 2024 C.E.
What is grace? We associate it with good things as in praying before eating and receiving mercy for those things we ought not to have done. Paul frequently opens his letters to various churches with grace, peace and other gentle words of greeting. The Apostle then encourages believers in a spirit of grace given to…
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Crucifixion! – Scripture Fulfilled
Crucifixion! – The Spirit of Grace .. this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. Acts 2:23And how is this the Spirit of Grace? For God so loved the world, that he gave his only…
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DEATH cries out! from many perspectives
A poem of death’s despair. From cries of pain Surrounded by suffering Entombed in death Men and women Hung their heads In death’s despair. + His pain I now know His suffering I deserve From this dark place of justice My sorrow must pierce. Roger Harned – TalkofJESUS.com “ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?” 22:1 אֵלִי אֵלִי…
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Amos the Seer: “I told you so (5x) – GOD showed me
I told you so! Don’t we hate to hear it? While occupied in our own daily trespasses we stop up our ears to any who would warn of our sins: “Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold…” And to make things worse, in the day of our demise the seer such as Amos could…
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That you may have Certainty – 6 – Gentiles
“I, the LORD, have called You in righteousness, And will hold Your hand; I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles… Behold, the former things have come to pass, And new things I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you of them.” Isaiah…
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That you may have Certainty – 5 – A King of the Jews
King of the Jews And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” – Luke 23:3 They had remembered hearing the indictment of this gentile governor while hiding their faces from his Roman judgment seat. Although complicit in Jesus’ prosecution, an illegitimate half-jew Herodian sat powerless while Roman troops…
