Pearl posted this wonderful hymn back in January. It describes the unconditional love that our Great God has for each of us. A humbling question: “Who am I?”
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Truce? 11/27/12
November 27, 2012There are so many different views about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. I have been Watching Prophecy in the News for quite some time now and I always like to hear what Gary Stearman has to say. He is a Bible scholar, in my opinion, and he relates what is happening in Israel to scripture in a way that’s easy to understand. Some of his guests have ideas that I don’t agree with and I don’t come as firmly down on a pre-trib view as Gary does. I find him to be a humble man with great knowledge. This doesn’t mean he is correct in his views, but I like his manner and what he has to say always interests me. In this short podcast, he explains why Israel is so important and points out some of the latest developments in the Middle East.
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Let Us Come Before His Presence With Thanksgiving
November 21, 2012Psalm 95
King James Version (KJV)
95 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
I would like to wish you a happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for the opportunity to share my thoughts on this blog. Mostly, I am thankful for the gift of our Great Redeemer who paid for our sins with His dear life. What a Great God of unconditional love we have.
Chris Reimers
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O LORD, THOU HAST…
November 20, 2012“O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul. Lam. 3:58
Observe how positively the prophet speaks. He doth not say, “I hope, I trust, I sometimes think, that God hath pleaded the causes of my soul”; but he speaks of it as a matter of fact not to be disputed. “Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.” Let us, by the aid of the gracious Comforter, shake off those doubts and fears which so much mar our peace and comfort. Be this our prayer, that we may have done with the harsh croaking voice of surmise and suspicion, and may be able to speak with the clear, melodious voice of full assurance. Notice how gratefully the prophet speaks, ascribing all the glory to God alone! You perceive there is not a word concerning himself or his own pleadings. He doth not ascribe his deliverance in any measure to any man, much less to his own merit; but it is “thou O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.” A grateful spirit should ever be cultivated by the Christian; and especially after deliverances we should prepare a song for our God. Earth should be a temple filled with the songs of grateful saints, and every day should be a censor smoking with the sweet incense of thanksgiving. How joyful Jeremiah seems to be while he records the Lord’s mercy. How triumphantly he lifts up the strain! He has been in the low dungeon, and is even now no other than the weeping prophet; and yet in the very book which is called “Lamentations”, clear as the song of Miriam when she dashed her fingers against the tabor, shrill as the note of Deborah when she met Barak with shouts of victory, we hear the voice of Jeremiah going up to heaven “Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.” O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord’s lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92)
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America Is A Frog In A Pot Of Slowly Heating Water That’s About To Boil
November 19, 2012I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this old analogy in the past couple of years, but I think it fits our situation well. A short article by Charlie Daniels gives quite a few reasons why the frog may be about to die.
“It’s hard for us to understand what happened to the America where unborn life was once respected and protected, where marriage existed only between a man and a woman and was considered sacred and where no self respecting person would ever stand in front of a television audience of millions and tell them it was her right to have her contraception paid for out of the public coffers.”
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The Annual Day of Atonement
November 19, 2012I have reached Leviticus 16 in my personal study of God’s Word. With what is happening now in Israel, I thought a couple of quotes about this important chapter in the Bible would be appropriate. Both quotes are taken from Halley’s Bible Handbook.
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The Divine Origin of the Sacrificial System
“God placed the system of sacrifices at the center and heart of Jewish national life. Whatever its immediate applications and implications may have been to the Jews, the unceasing sacrifice of animals and the never-ending glow of alter fires were without doubt designed by God to burn into the consciousness of the people of Israel a sense of their deep sinfulness. They were also, for more than a millennium, a picture that pointed forward to the coming sacrifice of Christ on the cross. The Levitical priesthood was divinely ordained to be the mediator between God and the Hebrew nation through the bringing of animal sacrifices. But those sacrifices were fulfilled in Christ. Animal sacrifices are no longer necessary. Christ Himself is our Great High Priest, the only Mediator between God and humanity, as Hebrews 8-10 makes very clear. Thus Christ is both our Sacrifice and our High Priest, our Mediator.” (1)
The Annual Day of Atonement
“The annual Day of Atonement (still celebrated in Judaism today in modified form and known by its Hebrew name, Yom Kippur) fell on the 10th day of the seventh month (Tishri). It was the most solemn day of the year. Each time, the removal of sin was only for one year (Hebrews 10:3), but it pointed forward to its eternal removal (Zechariah 3:4, 8-9; 13:1; Hebrews 10:14).
“After the sacrificial goat had been offered, the high priest laid his hands on the head of the scapegoat, confessing over him the sins of the people. The goat was then sent away into the wilderness, bearing away with it the sins of the people. This ceremony was one of God’s historical foreshadowings of the coming atonement for human sin by the death of Christ.” (2)
(1) Halley’s Bible Handbook, Zondervan, 2000, Pg. 158
(2) Ibid, Pg. 160
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UC Irvine Student Government Approves Anti-Israel Boycott
November 16, 2012“Even as missiles launched from Gaza are killing innocent Israelis, there is no rest for the anti-Semitic, Israel-bashers at the University of California, Irvine. On Tuesday night, the student senate passed a non-binding resolution requesting that the school divest from eight companies currently doing business with the Jewish State.”
The anti-Semitism that was alive and well in America in the pre-WWII era is evidently re-emerging.
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A GENERATION THAT DID NOT KNOW THE LORD
November 16, 2012You can read Dr. Andy Woods article entitled “There Arose Another Generation After Them Who Did Not Know the Lord”: A Post Election Analysis here.
I think Dr. Woods gives a good description of the state of America in 2012. It is not a rosy picture.
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Egypt PM to Visit Gaza in Support of Hamas Against Israel
November 15, 2012This is the latest story I could find out of the “new” Israeli conflict as I make this post.
The story reminds me of a Biblical prophecy. It is from the book of Ezekiel and goes like this:
“Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.
“And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the lord; because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.
“Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.
“No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.”
-Ezekiel 29: 8-11
Has there ever been a time in Egypt’s history when it was not inhabited? I don’t know of such a time. So, unless I am ignorant of a historical fact, the prophecy is futuristic. Will the current conflict lead to such an “event?” Only time will tell.
CR
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The Future of Damascus?
November 28, 2012Gary again. Interesting statements.
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