Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Psalm 50.14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
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The New York Times article HERE is titled “Raising the Titanic, Sinking Christianity.” Movie maker James Cameron says he has found “proof” that Jesus was human only, and they have his bones, and those of his family, and they’re going to expose it all on TV. In the words of that great icon of American deep thought – Dorothy Gale – “lions and tigers and bears – oh my!”
Caskets and bone dust and fiction – oh my!
The TIMES, in their own fine effort at investigative reporting quotes Canada’s Globe and Mail as reporting:
“If the evidence adduced is correct, the bone boxes, and microscopic remains of DNA still contained inside, would constitute the first archaeological evidence of the existence of the Christian savior and his family.
“Tests on mitochondrial DNA obtained from the Jesus and Mariamne boxes and conducted at Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA laboratory in Thunder Bay, show conclusively that the two individuals were not maternally related. According to Carney Matheson, head of the lab, this likely means they were related by marriage.”
Three comments.
- I see. And just who provided a DNA sample from the real Jesus so that they could test it against that for authentication? Humm. Yeah, I thought so.
- And, the only answer for the non-linked DNA of the two males found which shows they were not maternally related and that “likely means they were related by marriage” – likely means that why? Because we like it! That’s why.
- And so the entire events of the New Testament are so fabricated that Jesus REMAINS in Jerusalem, has a family and not ONE SINGLE OUTSIDE SOURCE AT THE TIME point to His very public family tomb? OK, unh, are you maybe interested in a deal I have on some ocean front property in Ohio? I’ve got a deal.
’nuff said.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Rom. 11.13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Psalm 50.14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
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Rom. 10.13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
I am currently preaching through the book of Romans. This last week I approached the 3rd part of Paul’s four part argument regarding why the inviolable love of God in Christ remains intact, even though it may seem outwardly that Israel has been severed from its own inviolable promises. (The theme of Rom. 9-11) He is suring up the Believer in his trust in Christ and perseverance.
As I worked through the passage, I had occasion to read Spurgeon’s sermon on Rom. 10.13 as cited above. Spurgeon notes that in a survey of Scripture you find that to “call upon the Lord” is seen in 4 contexts. To call upon the Lord is used in terms of WORSHIPPING God. To call upon the Lord is seen in the context of PRAYER. To call upon the Lord is also used of TRUSTING God. And lastly, to call upon the Lord is also used of PROFESSING faith in the Lord.
So it is I pose the question to you dear reader – Do you worship Jesus Christ as God? Do you call upon Him in life’s needs – and especially have you called upon HIm to forgive your sins and make you his own? Are you trusting the atoning, substitutionary of Jesus at Calvary alone for your right standing with God? Do you make an open profession of Him as your Savior and Lord? This is what it means to call upon Him. And those who do – WILL be saved.
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Luke 6.20 “And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said…46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Mark 10.35-37 “And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”
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Walk in Wisdom – Gleanings from Scripture
Proverbs 4.23 – Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.”
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