Chapter 23 is a dark...
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Chapter 23 is a dark chapter. Verse 14 refers to (false) prophets committing adultery. Does that describe anyone we know? Verse 33 is a startling one.
"I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only," ought to bring awe as we number the universe in such numbers as 100 billion stars in our galaxy and there are approximately 100 billion galaxies. Their numbers are so great that we can truly say, "Only God knows."
How are we faithful to God's message? Is it the truth that God's message is only blessing and no burden? A preacher writes of one of those church shopping people who told him that she had not been able to find a church to satisfy her. She revealed that she was looking for a church where Satan was bound, the angels were loosed, where everyone is healed, and no one suffers poverty. There will never be such a church in this world.
Then there is Jim Elliot. Reared in a Christian home, Elliot did not think only of what the Christian message gave him, but also of what he should give. On August 16, 1948, Elliot spoke to a group of Native Americans on a Minnesota reservation. After graduation from Wheaton College, Jim and some other missionaries went to the Auca Indians. As you recall, the missionaries were martyred, but their widows also went and in time began to convert the Aucas. Do we really understand the gift of the cross if we do not also give?
--Richardson
"I am a God who is everywhere and not in one place only," ought to bring awe as we number the universe in such numbers as 100 billion stars in our galaxy and there are approximately 100 billion galaxies. Their numbers are so great that we can truly say, "Only God knows."
How are we faithful to God's message? Is it the truth that God's message is only blessing and no burden? A preacher writes of one of those church shopping people who told him that she had not been able to find a church to satisfy her. She revealed that she was looking for a church where Satan was bound, the angels were loosed, where everyone is healed, and no one suffers poverty. There will never be such a church in this world.
Then there is Jim Elliot. Reared in a Christian home, Elliot did not think only of what the Christian message gave him, but also of what he should give. On August 16, 1948, Elliot spoke to a group of Native Americans on a Minnesota reservation. After graduation from Wheaton College, Jim and some other missionaries went to the Auca Indians. As you recall, the missionaries were martyred, but their widows also went and in time began to convert the Aucas. Do we really understand the gift of the cross if we do not also give?
--Richardson
