Our paragraph topic is: (Lamentation over Jerusalem) Part 3.
For God so loved the world and yet the world loved him not. His heart yearned for the love that he gave to the world but the world would not give back. Even his own chosen children that he led from the Egyptian labor camps to freedom refused to show their appreciation for his love. Years went by and they forgot the mighty hand that he showed their parents and grandparents leading them to freedom.
Their God was a mighty God. Their God was a loving God. Their God was a God of mercy and forgiveness. Yet they were a children and a race that strayed from him and went their own way. He has said how often he would have gathered them together: "As a hen gathers her young under her wings."
How tender a sight to imagine and see such a protective moment that our God would provide for us such a gesture security, such a gesture of love, such a gesture of passion for his children. Can we not see this happening to us? Can we not feel his love for us that we would have such a moment of protection over us that nothing would happen to us at any time? He is our protector. He is our provider. He is our be all and end all if we just call upon him to be there for us.
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.
Our paragraph topic is: (Lamentation over Jerusalem) Part 2.
Christ cried out for the city on the hill, Jerusalem, Oh Jerusalem! He loved the city and the people within it. His passion for them was deeply held within him for he knew what was to happen. Yet with all the effort to stop the trials and tribulations nothing happened. Messengers were sent, prophets were delivered so that the people would hear the message but the city would not have it.
Christ knew. He saw the past and the future of the city. He knew what would happen and his heart wept for the people and especially for the children. He cried: "How often would I have gathered thy children together." The children that he so loved and cared for that he wanted to protect but could not. The little ones that were so precious to him who's hearts were so full of love who's lives were cut short. These were the ones that he wanted to protect, to provide for but could not because the city would not.
Jerusalem, Oh Jerusalem, why did it have to be this way. Sin City, Sin City, why do you call us to do the things that we do? Why do you corrupt? Why do you create greed? Why do you cause us to slander? Why do you cause us to loose all our morals just to seek the false glitze and glamour of the bright lights of your city? Sin City, even the children are brought here to be influenced at an early age.
We cry and we weep for we must have the life that is flashed before us daily, in our lives and in our dreams. These are our goals. This is what we live for and what we die for, to live the golden life. And yet we do not realize that we already have the golden life. It has already been given us. Christ came that we would have it and have it more abundantly. But we do not understand that it is already there for us. We are blinded by the glitz and glamour of the bright lights of the world and what it has to offer.
What thing of value can a man offer for his own soul? There is nothing more valuable in this world than a man's soul. Lose not your own!
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.
Our paragraph topic is: (Lamentation over Jerusalem) Part 1.
Love hurts. Those who have experienced deeply the pleasure of love know the pain that comes from rejection, separation, and breakup. The experience is one that all humans must go through at some point in their life. It is important to know it in order to know how to overcome the pain and the sorrow. It is important to know how to overcome that experience in order to know how to go on living.
We experience love in life and in death. We love in life and we love lost those that are taken away from us in death. It is a part of how we live, a part of how we learn to live, a part of how we must grow and accept who we are in this world. Living is pleasurable but it is also painful in many ways. Yet it is something that we must accept. We loose mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, love ones, children, relatives, and yet we must find some way to accept and go on living in this world.
Christ cried for those that he loved. He lamented for the many times that he sent love messages that were rejected, scorned, trashed, burned, and ignored. His passion for those that he loved burned deeply within his soul. He lamented deeply for the souls of the people knowing what they would do to the people that he sent. He cried out: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Thou who killest the prophets, and stonest those who are sent to thee!"
We were children together. We played in the same yard, ran on the same streets, grew up in the same schools, had the same friends, yet you know me not. Have you become so high and mighty, so proud, so famous, that you do not know from where you come? Jerusalem wherefore have thou come? Jerusalem, the high and mighty city on the hill. The one where kings and rulers live. Forget not from which from which you have come, for you are but the same as the man in the street or the village down the road. It is God's love that has brought you forth, that keeps you in the light of time. It is God's love that will leave you in the limelight and shine on another, least you forget who you are.
We are but children of God, our Father who created us and gave us life. For he has life within him and it is that life that he shares with us. We have a choice. We can choose life or we can choose to remain in death. The passion of Christ gave us that choice. Which do you choose?
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.
Our paragraph topic is: (Their persecution of religion) Part 14.
And the kingdom of heaven came upon them and they were not ready. The opportunity for repentance came before them and they did not repent. The day of judgment was there in their presences and they dismissed it as another hoax. They were blind and could not see, deaf and could not hear, dumb and could not understand the changing of events taking place around them.
Farmers could read the change in the weather. Politicians could read the change in the moods of the people. Priest can understand the spiritual needs of their parishioners. But the Scribes and the Pharisees were so engrained in their beliefs that they could not see the light of Christ that stood before them despite all the signs that were shown. And Christ told them: Amen, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."
Theirs was the endpoint of their time. Christ had come to offer redemption. They had rejected redemption and instead choose to fight it. So the time had come to close the books, to end the persecution, to write the names of all those who were persecuted and all the names of those who persecuted the just. Judgment day had come and their names were written in the judgment book along with all the others who had persecuted the just.
Thank you Father for the opportunity for redemption. Thank you for the mercy you have shown us in giving me the chance to repent of my sins. For I know not when or how or where I may be called upon to surrender my life and come before you for judgment. But that the life I have lived at least I have had the opportunity to change my ways and repent of my sins. I pray that if I may die tomorrow that you will have mercy upon my soul and not condemn me to hell.
My desire is to be with my savior Lord Jesus Christ in his kingdom that I may be fulfilled by his presence. For he is my be all and end all. There is nothing on this earth that can fill me more than his presence. Thank you Father each day for the love and the protection that you give me and my family. May we continue to walk the path that leads us to your kingdom.
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.
