Our paragraph topic is: (The son of David) Part 2.
Now the tables are turned and Christ has the opportunity to test the Pharisees in their knowledge and wisdom. He wants to save them. He wants to heal them from their blindness. He wants to open their eyes so that they may see the truth. So he makes an attempt to purge their minds with a question that might lead them to understand the truth of the scriptures.
They are the Pharisees. They are the leaders of the people, the scholars who have studied the scriptures all their lives. They have learned from the masters of their time the inner meanings of the writings of their forefathers. They should know the answers to these questions. So Jesus questioned them: saying "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"
They knew the scriptures of the old testament. They studied them everyday. They knew the answer to the question. Would their minds allow them to accept the answer? Would the answer allow itself to be spoken? It would contradict everything that they thought and believed. Yet there it was in the scriptures, the answer that they had not put together with the facts of what was before them today. Contradiction! Confusion! Anxiety! Would they believe?
God gave man free will to choose his own destiny. He wanted to save all mankind at first but Adam failed and Satan deceived. So the soul of man died for many years until Christ came to redeem mankind and give new life to those who would believe. The decision is not made. The decision is ours alone to make. We must decide, individually, as a group. Do we live or do we continue to die?
God our Father loves us. The proof is in his mercy. The proof is in his love. The proof is in the sacrifice of his only son.
Now the tables are turned and Christ has the opportunity to test the Pharisees in their knowledge and wisdom. He wants to save them. He wants to heal them from their blindness. He wants to open their eyes so that they may see the truth. So he makes an attempt to purge their minds with a question that might lead them to understand the truth of the scriptures.
They are the Pharisees. They are the leaders of the people, the scholars who have studied the scriptures all their lives. They have learned from the masters of their time the inner meanings of the writings of their forefathers. They should know the answers to these questions. So Jesus questioned them: saying "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"
They knew the scriptures of the old testament. They studied them everyday. They knew the answer to the question. Would their minds allow them to accept the answer? Would the answer allow itself to be spoken? It would contradict everything that they thought and believed. Yet there it was in the scriptures, the answer that they had not put together with the facts of what was before them today. Contradiction! Confusion! Anxiety! Would they believe?
God gave man free will to choose his own destiny. He wanted to save all mankind at first but Adam failed and Satan deceived. So the soul of man died for many years until Christ came to redeem mankind and give new life to those who would believe. The decision is not made. The decision is ours alone to make. We must decide, individually, as a group. Do we live or do we continue to die?
God our Father loves us. The proof is in his mercy. The proof is in his love. The proof is in the sacrifice of his only son.
Read the sign of the times! Read the Highlighted New Testament Bible and lift the scales from your eyes that you may see, that you may know, that you may find the truth of who you are in Christ. Read it as though you would read a good book, from cover to cover, and see for yourself. Do not study it in parts reading one passage nd then skipping to another, but read it for understanding. Read it for knowledge. Read it for faith. Read it that your eyes may be opened, that your ears may hear, that your heart may be filled with the light of Christ . The Holy Spirit awaits you. Christ seeks to know you. Open the door and let him in.
