26 April 10
Hi, folks.
It's still morning here at 10:11am. Too much clogging my brain
waves and I didn't get in my jog. Maybe tomorrow...
I'm looking out the window across the yard to the trees filling out
with new leaves...down to the creek that is still running like a
river. It's overcast...but beautiful. What a terrific time
of year Spring is! What inspiration to see what has appeared to
be dead SPRING to life! I feel encouraged already. Now I
need to SPRING into action to try to catch up with the day that's
already off and running.
Blessings.
Dad/Ray
26 April 2010
Passage: Mark 14:53-72
Focus: “Why do WE NEED more WITNESSES?” Mark 14:63.
The full verse reads this way: “The high priest tore his clothes.
‘Why do WE NEED more WITNESSES?’ he asked.” (I did the capitals
for emphasis.)
The wording that the high priest used here is clear evidence that Jesus
was falsely condemned before this council ever tried Him. They
only NEEDED some kind of substantial convincing WITNESS or accusation
against Him that would support and confirm the sentence they had
already passed. Since these enemies of Christ really wanted Him
dead, they then struggled to gather sufficient reason to kill Him so
they could make it look like a legal execution.
I’ve met a lot of people in my time who were absolutely delighted, for
example, to point out all the hypocrites in Christian churches.
They had already made a judgment that rejects God’s claim to their
lives, so they are eager to use the nonsense exceptions in Christian
churches to condemn the whole of the Christian faith. That way
they can carry on living the way they want to live with some
legitimate-sounding support.
Jeremiah 17:9 is certainly a revelation of God’s view of the deceitful
and wicked leaning of the human heart apart from spirit conversion and
rebirth. And it’s clear that natural human hearts will never ever
be able to arrive at TRUE conclusions about Christ and God and His Word
on their own. For, “The man without the Spirit does not accept
the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually
discerned” (I Cor. 2:14). Like begets like, truth begets truth,
and spiritual light begets spiritual understanding. That’s why
David declares, “Surely you desire truth in the inner parts” (Ps.
51:6). That is the one and only basis for establishing truth in
choices and decisions. The person with truth and honesty inside
is absolutely free from the corrupt style of those who NEED WITNESSES
to support what their dirty hearts desire.
“The man who denies the legitimacy of Genesis actually denies
the deity of Jesus Christ who believed the account.”