tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90818118565758107092024-03-05T21:21:01.628-05:00the hike o' lifeA tale of a preacher girl trying to seek God, walk in His will and honor what is important to Him.preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-13585616361508188252015-01-22T11:25:00.000-05:002015-01-22T11:25:32.194-05:00Confessions of a perfectly imperfect pastor…<br />
Confessions of a perfectly imperfect Christian…<br />
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I write this as God has gifted me with some time to be at home. <br />
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What should a pastor do when they get a gift day? <br />
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I have sat, just sat, listening to praise music, praying for those out on a blustery morning, all while thankful I don’t have to be out yet! <br />
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My lunch perhaps represents my life, a sampler platter, reheated in the microwave; from a Greek restaurant, two mini stuffed grape leaves; from a seafood place, some tilapia and broccoli; and from my mom’s a few veggies! Determined not to over indulge, I bring these scraps home. Determined not to waste them, I end up with some very unusual meals!<br />
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Some may say, I am living the life. No kids to keep up with, no husband to satisfy, I get to decide what I do and when I do it. <br />
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Some may say, that I live the most selfish of lives.
I beg to differ, my life is not my own.<br />
Often, I question, the Lord, my true husband: everyone’s true spouse – if we have died to self and taken up crosses and tried to follow Him. Where should I be? What should I do? What would be pleasing to the kingdom of God? <br />
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I probably carry burdens that I shouldn’t. Someone asks me for what I do not have to give, and I scramble to see if I can do it. I am often too proud to ask for help for myself, but yet try to help anyone that asks.<br />
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Blogging, reaching others, trying to help others, I feel that is part of my call, but yet if I do, people think I ought to be an expert – I AM NOT! I hate that even when I take off my mask – others try to put it on me and put me on a pedestal. How do you share God’s love authentically even as you are struggling to understand what that love is. <br />
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If you have the answers, please let me know. <br />
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My lunch is cooling, I probably should finish it before I get out and about on my rounds for the day. <br />
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But, before I do, I hope you realize this…<br />
We all are imperfect…<br />
We all are untrue…<br />
That is why God, in His infinite love sent His son, Jesus.<br />
Jesus who is perfect, chose to leave the place of honor at His Father’s side.<br />
He chose to become our perfect PASS OVER lamb.<br />
By His stripes we are healed.<br />
Through Him we are covered by the blood of His sacrifice.<br />
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Our perfections are perfectly perfected so we do not have to say as Isaiah did, “Woe is me, my lips are unclean.”<br />
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Thank you God, that you only ask me to focus in my own imperfection upon,
“whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.” Philippians 4:8 NIV<br />
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What is it that God would like you to bring to Him today, so you can focus on Him?<br />
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Peace,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The perfectly imperfect pastor</em></span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-44908167949883016862015-01-10T16:56:00.000-05:002015-01-10T16:57:01.875-05:00Homemade Soup - Random Disney Songs - and my MMM Cheese girls<br />
It's a cold but sunny Saturday afternoon and my mentoring group, are gathered in my living room randomly chatting and dreaming. We all came from different places, a lunch date with the boyfriends on a work break, buying make-up, clothes shopping and child birthing class!<br />
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I had a pot of soup on and on this day where the thermometer climbed to 14 and it "felt warm" we all were glad to grab a mug and some crackers as we gathered. I love being able to make random things and have people enjoy them!<br />
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The coffee pot was perking and the last of the chocolate rolo Christmas cookies jumped on a plate with some chocolate wafer, some buttery crackers and dark chocolate covered raisins! The plate is nearly empty and we are warm and thoughtful as we linger.<br />
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Thanks to technology we are "facetiming" the member of our group who had to go back to school early.<br />
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The topics are creativity, boyfriends, parodies of Disney songs, and fun and serious names for our co-leaders coming child. Gertrude Meriwether and Spaulding Wrangler are our fun names! How do you feel about that!<br />
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Other names we have come up with are Harry Francesca, Sarah LeeAnne, Nakeirah Pickle, Nakookah Cucumber, Elisa Angelina, Luca Diego, Gotham Wright, just to name a few.<br />
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The important thing is we are all together, intentionally and we are being creative! What will we remember is the laughter, the connection and depending on how good we came up with names - the names!<br />
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The photo says it all! The time that we spend together purposefully investing in others lives, plants seeds of positivity.<br />
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Will we ever sing those Disney songs again? Will a child ever be named those things? Probably not...<br />
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Will our relationships with each other continue to grow in depth and intimacy? Yes, I think so! <br />
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No matter where this finds you on your weekend - extract the best and make it memorable! Blessings, on the Hike of Life!preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-89899488657857054412014-03-05T22:07:00.004-05:002014-03-05T22:07:59.494-05:00GOT ASHES? SHOULD YOU LENT? - I AM! IT BRINGS ME CLOSER TO JESUS<br />
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This post is from three years ago - but as I went to Ash Wednesday service and spent time with friends asking me questions about that cross on my forehead - I decided that I am going to revisit these and update and write some new entries as I am inspired this year. So if it sounds familiar you may have read this three years ago!<br />
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<i>“Then he told them what they could expect for themselves: "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat—I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? If any of you is embarrassed with me and the way I'm leading you, know that the Son of Man will be far more embarrassed with you when he arrives in all his splendor in company with the Father and the holy angels. This isn't, you realize, pie in the sky by and by. Some who have taken their stand right here are going to see it happen, see with their own eyes the kingdom of God." </i>Luke 9: 23-27 The Message<br /><br /><br /> As a shepherdess without a flock this year, I was trying to decide whether or not to practice Lent (some of the congregations that are considering me don’t all practice Lent per their tradition – more on that in a later post), I was challenged by a friend to post daily on facebook and help others draw nearer to Christ in this season.<br /><br /> So Karen thanks! I accept the challenge. <br /><br /> Lent is the Christian season of preparation before Easter. In Western Christianity, Ash Wednesday, (that is this today, Wednesday, March 5, 2014) marks the first day, or the start of the season of Lent, which begins 40 days prior to Easter (Sundays are not included in the count as they are considered to be resurrections days and therefore we do not fast on the resurrection). <br /><br /> Lent is a time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation and spiritual discipline. <br /><br /> The purpose is to set aside time for reflection on Jesus Christ - his suffering and his sacrifice, his life, death, burial and resurrection. </div>
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<br /> The Bible does not mention the custom of Lent, however, the practice of repentance and mourning in ashes (more on that of course on Ash Wednesday) is found in 2 Samuel 13:19; Esther 4:1; Job 2:8; Daniel 9:3; and Matthew 11:21. <br /><br /> Some of us have looked at Lent, as a legalistic way to “earn” our salvation through stringent practices, but the intent of those early church mothers and fathers was to help us focus on Christ. <br /><br /> In the modern era sometimes we think of the Lenten fast as a new year’s resolution redo, however to a committed follower of Christ we must REJECT THOSE THOUGHTS and allow CHRIST TO GUIDE US TO THE CROSS and have repentant sacrificial hearts and prepare us to be ready for the ALLELUIA’s of the EMPTY TOMB<br /><br /><br /> FASTING <br /> is one common practice – to give something up and when you crave the forbidden luxury – turn to GOD. <br /><br /> PRAYER <br /> is another common practice to commit to more time seeking and understanding the one who loves you most. <br /><br /> The last common practice of lent is ACTS OF KINDNESS <br /> to think of others and show them God’s love in unselfish and sacrificial ways.<br /><br /> To fast from rich foods we seek the simplicity of daily bread, to fast from television and outside distractions we draw nearer to our Lord. To engage in acts of kindness and forgiveness is to understand more of God’s mercy and grace towards us.<br /><br /> So how can we begin our journey – On the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday we will use up or get rid of what we are denying our selves – for the obedient church goers in the middle ages – they used up all the fat, eggs and meat in their home with one last feast before their fast. <br /> This idea has turned into Shrove Tuesday or Carnival or Mardi gras, depending on where you are geographically. </div>
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<br /> So today you and I need to decide what our Lenten practice will be. This web site has some great ideas for all who love Jesus; you can tell of course it is written with some specific ideas for those who practice the Roman Catholic tradition. The site is <br /><br /> http://www.nicksenger.com/onecatholiclife/101-practical-fasting-ideas-for-lent-redux<br /><br /> I intend to either post a helpful thought or blog each day and am still praying about what my fast should be. </div>
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<br /> I will, in accountability, keep you posted! But to close today here is a prayer for each of us as we prepare to walk more closely with Christ to more fully understand all HE willingly took on for us…<br /><br />A Lenten Reflection (author unknown)<br /> Give up complaining——focus on gratitude.<br /> Give up pessimism——become an optimist.<br /> Give up harsh judgments——think kindly thoughts.<br /> Give up worry——trust Divine Providence.<br /> Give up discouragement——be full of hope.<br /> Give up bitterness——turn to forgiveness.<br /> Give up hatred——return good for evil.<br /> Give up negativism——be positive.<br /> Give up anger——be more patient.<br /> Give up pettiness——become mature.<br /> Give up gloom——enjoy the beauty that is all around you.<br /> Give up jealousy——pray for trust.<br /> Give up gossiping——control your tongue.<br /> Give up sin——turn to virtue.<br /> Give up giving up——hang in there!<br /><br /> Praying for each of us – JOY regardless of our struggles or sufferings that we endure as we prepare our hearts for the fullness of the RESURRECTION in the Hike ‘o our earthly life….. </div>
preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-27423659957567165472014-02-09T14:22:00.001-05:002014-02-09T14:22:35.938-05:00At a bench - a marker - rest and reflect!Tomorrow is going to be one of those days!<br />
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Everyday is actually one of those days, but some days, we attach extra significance to.<br />
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Christmas and Easter for example, because we have changed calendars since the time of Christ and over the years different church leaders have made set times to commemorate these occurrences.<br />
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Tomorrow for me is the commemoration of the 50th, yes 50 anniversary of my birth! <br />
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I don't feel that old. In fact I took a test last week that said my mental age is 29! <br />
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I was so totally blessed by some gals I mentor who had a surprise party for me last week and I will confess the sin of pride - yes pride - that I blew out all fifty candles (without spitting on them) and with breath left to spare!<br />
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What is fifty anyway?<br />
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Many of you that follow my writing have a few more years of wisdom than I do and I know that a number is just a number!<br />
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I feel younger and more energized and healthier than I did at 30 actually.<br />
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But its in looking back that I realized how many amazing things I have experienced in my life.<br />
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I was actually born the day after the "Beatles" made their American Television debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.<br />
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The last two milestone birthdays, I had the privilege to be in foreign countries serving in missions. I tend to like to go somewhere warm and sunny to serve God in February! <br />
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When I turned forty, I wrote for a seminary class a list of 40 things I hope to do before I go to heaven. (A crazy fact, it was not yet called a "bucket list" at that time!) I am happy to say that I have accomplished almost 30 of these goals and will undoubtedly add to that list as I reflect.<br />
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I am still single, but I still hope to find that ideal mate. I have long given up the idea of giving birth to a child and wonder if I would even have the energy to adopt if I found myself able to do so. But, in my love of children and people, God has blessed me with so many spiritual children to nurture and mentor. I don't think my life could be any richer.<br />
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Four years ago on the eve of my 46th birthday, I went to bed wondering if I would wake up alive. I was so short of breath and had been diagnosed with bronchitis, but the next day in the ER of a major medical center, I was told that numerous blood clots had passed through my heart and it was only the grace of God that kept me from having a stroke or heart attack for the previous two months. My lungs were full of polka dots. I look back on that day as one of many turning points in my life. God used that situation for me to really reflect as I recovered on just what it was He was calling me to do.<br />
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He during that time, whispered "return" to the land of your fathers....and so I tendered my resignation to the churches I serve and kept chewing on what God's instruction meant. I lived with my parents for a while as I rested and healing, enjoyed working in a gourmet shop, even picked back up in pulpit ministry as I had the opportunity to serve as an interim minister.<br />
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But as I wrote recently in my "2014" too late for Christmas "Christmas letter"! As I moved into my current home, a mission house with a name, "The Living Acts House" in the community of Millersburg. I sensed the completion of understanding that command - "Return to the Land of your Fathers". I know I am not to be here forever, but rather to establish the next steps of my call to help others discover their call and passion in this incredible business/ministry I founded called LIFE CONNECT! <br />
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If you are still reading this, thanks - I think I am writing it more for myself, but yet feel compelled to share it too. Tomorrow, on my birthday- I won't be in a foreign country doing missions, but here in Millersburg, I will enjoy of day of great meaning as I go to my "tent-making" job as church secretary in the morning, then out to the local middle school to hang out with students in the afternoon and then dinner with my folks and nephews. It is going to be an exceptional day.<br />
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Yesterday as I was reflecting on those other birthdays where I was in a warm client serving - ( I actually turned down the chance to be doing a mission trip in Kenya this month and wondered if I missed what God wanted for me.) But in the cold sunshine, I could sense God's smile saying - YOU ARE IN <u>THIS MISSION FIELD</u> - you will have a blessed day. And I know I will.<br />
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One last ramble. A few weeks ago, at a Young Life Retreat, Jerry Leachman, who is a chaplain in the National Football League shared with us, his testimony and challenged us to play to the full extend of our being in EVERY QUARTER OF THE GAME! This really resonated with me as I think I am just now coming into the full fruition of my call. I may be approaching "half time" or maybe the "third quarter", but I am as energized as ever.<br />
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Stories keep coming to me as I have worked in several careers, gotten multiple degrees, lived in different states married dozens, probably buried almost a hundred and have gotten to know the stories of thousands of people in my ramblings as "preachergirl",just darcy" and "that Mennonite Missionary !"<br />
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One more crazy illustration and I will wrap this up. As a kid, our family often went hiking and one path always was known both for it's steep hill and for the three benches that were placed along the way for us to rest and reflect. We used to race up the rugged path to be the first to the bench.<br />
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Today as I stop and pause - here in Ohio amid more of God's beautiful snow - I see that bench it would look a little bit like this. <br />
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Thanks ahead of time of the greetings. I have had a great first half and even a "sudden death" pulmonary embolism didn't really slow me down, it just changed my direction a bit! </div>
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And I guess this blog I started has the very best title ever, THE HIKE OF LIFE! </div>
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LIFE WELL, LOVE BETTER and ENJOY EVERY MOMENT -</div>
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preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-28823219451747958082014-01-23T07:41:00.000-05:002014-01-23T07:41:06.929-05:00Hi BLOGGER!<br />
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I am logging in today for the first time in 3 years, it's a bit intimidating! I am trying to update and change and there just seems to be so much to learn! (Thought I would switch to word press and I like that too for different reasons), but now for some reason, I am thinking of keeping both sites going, this one more personal and the other <a href="http://www.yourlifeconnect.com/">www.yourlifeconnect.com</a> more for professional interests.<br />
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Frankly I am in deeper than I want to be, blogger has changed, I am frustrated and it's only 6 a.m.!<br />
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What tasks seem overwhelming to you today?<br />
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I cried with a young friend last night. She had just received a letter from the post secondary she hopes to attend. She didn't hear a yes, she didn't hear a no, she heard that she has to wait to hear for THREE MORE MONTHS!<br />
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That's overwhelming just when you think you will know and the waiting is prolonged. We reminded each other, that God is in the waiting room with us, keeping us going along the things he has for us to do.<br />
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Not sure why I am working on the blog this morning, I am looking at a list longer than... well it is so long, I can't even describe it. It's a good list, notes for new clients, work on a sermon for Sunday and other writing deadlines and for some reason I am trying to update my blog. I want to tell you where I live and what I am doing now, because the information is not current at the top, but for some reason, I can't crack that code!<br />
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So I feel as overwhelmed as my friend in her wait. <br />
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But what I can do, as Jesus Calling and Sarah Young reminds us today, January 23, is to lean on God in the moment. Zoom in to see Him here with me and then slowly draw back to understand in the big picture it doesn't really matter if I can't instantly change my header, or am going to have to wait a big longer for the news of future glory.<br />
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So header, I will conquer you. Posting this, getting a little housework done and then on to the tasks of the day. I will not let your stubbornness unnerve the joy that awaits.<br />
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I am not alone, and my victory is not the achievement or the news. It's the presence of the ONE who rests with me, holds me while I cry and patiently, oh so patiently holds my hand and guides me along.<br />
Guides me along on "the hike o' life"<br />
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Anticipate the fellowship of God in every task today!<br />
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<a href="http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Deuteronomy-31-6/" title="Deuteronomy 31:6"><strong>Deuteronomy 31:6</strong></a> - Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he goes with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.<br />
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So washing dishes, updating blogs, waiting for letters; it matters not - God goes with me!<br />
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Peace to you...<br />
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border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>That's all I am going to say today!</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>We all have trials.</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>But if we follow Romans 12:12 in the order listed...</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>We will be A-OK!</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Have a great day!</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>HOPE IS RISING ANEW!</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong></strong> </div><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Blessings,</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What a rainy and dreary day here in Ohio as we light the first candle of advent preparation. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In Zion's morning message we talked about the preparations the world would have us do for Christmas; spending money to buy whatever they tell us we need, putting up lights and decorations over every inch of living space and preparing every recipe that will create an festive apprearance. All these things can BE OK, but only if we have done the preparations of the heart and can shop, decorate and cook out of the abundance of our joy.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The first preparation is to cut away the layers of add ons to get to the heart of the matter, our hearts to be exact. I love this C.S. Lewis quote that I have paraphrased, </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span>"Most people if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, </span><span>would know that they DO WANT, and WANT ACUTELY, </span></em><span><em>something that CANNOT BE HAD IN THIS WORLD. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give this to you, BUT NO THING OF THIS WORLD can really give you</em> <em>what you long for in your heart"</em> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The people of Israel, of whom the Old Testament prophets wrote, longed for deliverance from their strife, they hoped to see Messiah. In our day and age, we realize Messiah came and established His Kingdom. We now long for the day when He returns as righteousness to correct all the wrongs of the earthly kingdoms and bring eternity and community to end our exile in a world of sin.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So in the darkness, we long for light. In our isolation, we hope for community. I will keep walking in this theme this week. But I encourage you in your own quiet times - To ask God to show you where HE is at in your darkness and CLING to HIM as He walks with you through the dark time, back into the light, LONGING IN HOPE FOR MORE OF HIM.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "Restore us, O LORD God Almighty; </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Psalm 80:19</span></div><br />
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</div><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>A Prayer: Lord as we look to the birth of Jesus, grant that the light of Your love for us will deepen our HOPE and help us to become Your true light in the lives of those around us. Prepare our hearts for the joy and gladness of your coming, for Jesus is our Hope of our longing. Amen.</em></span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-68535093301931093372011-11-26T15:34:00.001-05:002011-11-26T15:34:16.851-05:00Hiking to Bethlehem on the hike o' life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4525rrbjdL962hEMBRl8WajObON6PyYZQI_NMa40AJ-mFM_9aQr1JfzYh3OO6od9tnRdcZFhhD8F57Ruc6B5Zp3kv72VXR-0X-2fgLg0DOKKjsFjB5A9ucTg04_KIom1ePBZfaHIuMG4/s1600/Advent%2525202010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="312px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4525rrbjdL962hEMBRl8WajObON6PyYZQI_NMa40AJ-mFM_9aQr1JfzYh3OO6od9tnRdcZFhhD8F57Ruc6B5Zp3kv72VXR-0X-2fgLg0DOKKjsFjB5A9ucTg04_KIom1ePBZfaHIuMG4/s320/Advent%2525202010.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Many of you who are reading this followed my lenten daily blog last spring. I had been toying with the idea of jumping in again at during the Advent season since there are so many wonderful topics to blog about and affirmation to do this came from my young friend Makenna as she excitedly shared with me what she was giving up for Advent the other evening. As you read this, you might think, you don't give things up for Advent - that's Lent! But actually she had it right. Advent really is supposed to be more like Lent! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you are reading this, don't panic, but just come along with me for this hike The early church orginally intended for Advent to be a time of spiritual preparation, of digging deep within your heart to see how you need to be ready for the birth (INCARNATION - a theological term to unpack on a different day!) of God who came to earth in living form for the purpose of OUR salvation. (Lent is designed to prepare new believer's to join the church and to also remind us of Christ's preparations for His earthly ministry.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><em><blockquote class="tr_bq"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Word became flesh and blood, <br />
and moved into the neighborhood. <br />
We saw the glory with our own eyes, <br />
the one-of-a-kind glory, <br />
like Father, like Son, <br />
Generous inside and out, <br />
true from start to finish.</span></em></div></blockquote></em><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So while we all nicely say we are "getting ready" for Christmas as we put up decorations, purchase gifts, send cards and bake cookies; we really are just piling all those things on the top or our hearts which, really, I can say this about my own heart, NEED A THOROUGH CLEANING OUT DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I am NOT GOING TO FAST for ADVENT THOUGH, and I hope my friend Makenna and each of you don't either. What I am going to do is spend time with God - before the outward preparations (which I also enjoy - IN MODERATION!) - to prepare my heart, my mind and my spirit for more of what God reveals and keeps revealing until He comes again. Will you join me during this next month on this journey? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As I begin this journey, as I did the Lenten one, I am not sure where it will lead. I am simply being obedient to begin the path. I invite you to join me and seek God's call in your own life to make thing ready for His Coming ANEW deep within our being.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(I also begin a new journey in my ministry calling as I write this. Tomorrow I will deliver the first message in a season of interim ministry at Zion United Church of Christ in Ragersville. I seek your prayers for these messages and this congregation as we walk together to Bethlehem this year.)</span></div><br />
A PRAYER - <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Lord - Even as we linger at the abundant table from our thanksgiving feast, we pray that we begin to prepare and examine our lives, still giving thanks for everything we encounter, but allowing You to make us ready for the Coming of Your Son. We remember the infant born in Bethlehem and the Bridegroom of your church who will come again just as You have said to begin our eternity with you.</em></span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-88796030489139087042011-04-24T22:03:00.000-04:002011-04-24T22:03:24.790-04:00The QUESTION MARKS OF MY LIFE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPm5uUoJ9aEEuJDte41cit_uhYO8qbMDhSg8RgnbTyftK6eLYjftsq48bYzjh62pJJ7UghMzNjbuVdl_lXXQtGHyhFvfxVhyv-hamy89MsBFJIy5WrqEIbXSg4pEuqe3_YCgvFLysdg0/s1600/A_Question_Mark_on_Stained_Glass_Posters2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640px" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisPm5uUoJ9aEEuJDte41cit_uhYO8qbMDhSg8RgnbTyftK6eLYjftsq48bYzjh62pJJ7UghMzNjbuVdl_lXXQtGHyhFvfxVhyv-hamy89MsBFJIy5WrqEIbXSg4pEuqe3_YCgvFLysdg0/s640/A_Question_Mark_on_Stained_Glass_Posters2.jpg" width="436px" /></a></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">not sure if this is real stained glass window or a computer generation, but isn't it cool!</span></em></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. </em></span><br />
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I Corinthians 15:10a (NIV)<br />
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I just looked and this is my 50th blog posting since March 6th! I only missed one day on this journey, I can't believe how quickly it went. <br />
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But this is going to be the last posting for a bit!<br />
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I know that I am "called" to write and inspire as God leads me to. I have many ideas brewing around.<br />
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Some have told me that I am ending this season of intense Lenten discipline a better writer. I would like to think so, but I feel I still need to HARNESS my rambling thoughts and EDIT my writing a bit more. But I do feel very positive about this experience.<br />
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What has your Lenten Journey shown you? <br />
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What struggles have you encountered/overcome/fallen on?<br />
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Limiting the TV seemed hard to me at the time, but now that it's done, I don't miss it and don't really want to go back to it.<br />
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Please let me know your insights- you certainly have had to deal with mine!<br />
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Today, as briefly as possible I want to give you a quick update and seek your prayers over this season of transition in my life.<br />
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I still don't have a full time ministry job. I am still actually waiting to hear the status of a situation that began well before the Lenten journey. Not sure what that means, but it is what it is!<br />
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In the last two weeks - I have been led to two incredible opportunities to do ministry.<br />
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At a local funeral home, I will be available for those who do not have a church, but ask for a pastor for services/counseling. It's a bit of "pin" money, but more importantly a chance to share God's love and the light of His Gospel at a time when families need it most. <br />
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Also I am increasing my volunteer involvement with the Circle of Friends ministry in organizing prayer support teams and prayer coverage as this incredible ministry keeps growing and connecting women with a "Place to Belong". We are seeking those who love this ministry with a heart to pray over the events and leaders so contact me if you are stirred to do so.<br />
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My life verse that is cited above, keeps reminding me that this is not my trip, but God's!<br />
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He offered me salvation, <br />
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He called me to ministry and <br />
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He gets all the credit and in EVERY WAY provides for me. <br />
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I want to be worried or ask for more (and I DO!?) but somehow it all works out. (I am having one of those, I can't believe the provision of funds - just in the nick of time - again - moments! THANK YOU LORD and those who hear HIM oh so clearly.)<br />
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Anyway - While I heard God clearly calling me to press into the writing and serving on this blog until Easter, I now sense it is time for intense pressing in prayer, listening and seeking increased counsel on the next step of call.<br />
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I am writing all of this to ask you to please crank up your prayers for me as you are led.<br />
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I am seriously considering a secular full time job, because as I go back to the LAST SURE THING I HEARD FROM GOD ON THIS<br />
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- It was simply "return to the land of your fathers'".<br />
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There was no promise that it was a ministry job! I have been led to place my name in certain ministry situations, but nothing has come of it. I am also wondering if perhaps I am supposed to be a "local missionary" and work via a para church organization? Many questions, but no answers yet. Perhaps it is not yet God's timing, but I want to be poised and ready for what does happen next.<br />
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So I know I am to be fairly local to be with parents and my sister's family and be involved locally with the many ministry opportunities that keep coming before me. It has been incredible to walk with my family through 3 surgeries (2 were my dad's, just one for Marcia {her most recent update is here <a href="http://www.carepages.com/carepages/Marciajourney/updates/3001823?client_code=default&ipc=mur">http://www.carepages.com/carepages/Marciajourney/updates/3001823?client_code=default&ipc=mur</a>}), some chemotherapy, a retirement party, musical concerts, and more football and baseball games that I can count. I know that I was supposed to be stationed in the guest room of the folks house for a spell and my body is strong and ready to roll after the crazy year that was 2010 for me (if you didn't get my Christmas year in review it is here <a href="http://darcymiller-preachergirl.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html">http://darcymiller-preachergirl.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html</a>! It has been an good season of healing and renewing our relationships, BUT?<br />
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I truly enjoy much about my part-time job at Heini's Gourmet Market and know that God led me there last July as I look back and see some of the incredible things that have happened as I have worked there. The people I have met are incredible and I have learned so much about the incredible products, foods as well as wines that come from small Ohio family companies, BUT?<br />
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So anyway - Mondays, beginning tomorrow/today are going to be a day of my pressing in, before and after work, and journaling and listening - for now until Pentecost in fifty short days. <br />
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BUT - before I close - I know you have questions about your own life as well...<br />
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Let's establish those things that we already know the answers to....<br />
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GOD LOVES EACH ONE OF US VERY MUCH!<br />
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GOD ALREADY HAS ANSWERED ALL OUR QUESTIONS!<br />
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I KNOW WHERE I AM SPENDING MY ETERNITY AND PRAY YOU TO DO!<br />
if you don't we do need to talk - call me!<br />
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I am taking a full week off the blog and hope to reformat some things as God guides. <br />
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Praying for you and just asking that you would pray for me too!<br />
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THE TOMB IS EMPTY! HALLELUJAH!<br />
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I BELIEVE IN CHRIST'S RESURRECTION POWER!<br />
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AND I AM READY AND WAITING AND PREPARING TO GO WHERE HE SENDS ME NEXT<br />
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May the light of Jesus shine continually to drive away all darkness. May Christ, the Morning Star who knows no setting, find his light ever burning in our hearts—he who gives his light to all creation, and who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen. <br />
-- adapted from the Book of Common Prayer -1979, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.<br />
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<b>A Prayer for Easter Morning</b><br />
0 Lord Jesus Christ, who upon this day did conquer death and rise from the dead,<br />
and who are alive for ever more, help us never to forget your Risen Presence forever with us. <br />
Help us to remember, <br />
That you are with us in every time of perplexity to guide and to direct; <br />
That you are with us in every time of sorrow to comfort and console; <br />
That you are with us in every time of temptation to strengthen and to inspire; <br />
That you are with us in every time of loneliness to cheer and befriend; <br />
That you are with us even in death to bring us to the glory of your side. <br />
Make us to be certain that there is nothing in time or in eternity which can separate us from you,so that in your presence we may meet life with gallantry and death without fear. <br />
You turn our darkness into light, in your light we shall see light.<br />
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.<br />
Christ the Lord is risen today! <br />
ALLELUIA<br />
-- Adapted from ThisIsChurch.compreachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-75933616144715134352011-04-23T08:55:00.000-04:002011-04-23T08:55:45.347-04:007 DAYS!<span style="font-size: x-large;"><em> So teach us to number our days, </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><em> That we may present to You </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><em> a heart of wisdom. </em></span><br />
Psalm 90:12<br />
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About two weeks ago, I posted a question on Face Book, in this blog and and to various friends as I was planning to study very closely what Jesus did in the last seven days of His ministry time as a man from Galilee.<br />
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I was and am still amazed at all that happened for Jesus in JUST 7 DAYS (and that is not even getting to the last supper, time in the garden to the cross, to the grave and overcoming death) all the teaching and people Jesus connected with before those events.<br />
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So the questions I posed was this:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you discovered today,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> that you would only have 7 days days left on earth and could intentionally DO ANYTHING to fill those days that you chose, what would your top three priorities be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No one wanted to answer right away.</span><br />
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This is obviously something we all need to think about.<br />
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But then the answers starting flowing<br />
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and flowing.<br />
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Some folks wrote me several hundred words on what their week would look like!<br />
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In the end over 30 people responded.<br />
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of course this is not scientific at all.<br />
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But I feel that it is helpful to each person who responded.<br />
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So for those of us who want to want to know....<br />
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here goes!<br />
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Of the thirty respondents<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ALL SAID that they spend much time with family and those they loved!</span> I particularly liked the folks that said they would go to their special places and invite all to come ( an mountain cabin for one, a house on the beach for another.)<br />
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(JESUS DID THIS IN HIS LAST SEVEN DAYS AS WELL)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many mentioned working things that I would label legacy</span>, writing letters, making videos to share love and prayers with those who will remain.<br />
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(JESUS DID THIS AS HE SPOKE AND SHARED and what did he say at the last supper - Luke 22:19 "this do in remembrance of me")<br />
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Only one person actually said what I feel is the most important thing here<br />
- and yes this did occur to me as well.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To spent some deep heart to heart time with GOD</span> <br />
and see if there are any forgiveness, confessions or affirmations that GOD wants us to tackle before we move on the be with HIM always.<br />
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(YOU SEE JESUS DID THIS TOO!)<br />
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A couple of people put things on the list that actually amused me. <br />
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Travels to places they had not yet been,<br />
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one responded they would try skydiving!<br />
(Now actually this probably makes sense - if you wait til the 7th day to do this and it doesn't go well, no worries, right?)<br />
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One, who I respect as such a great dad, commented that he would bake pies with his kids each night to make those incredible memories together. <br />
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Another friend who loves the outdoors and horses would go riding to just appreciate all that is here and now as she anticipates what is to come.<br />
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Anyway - you can see that there are lot of ways to number our days!<br />
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Why did I do this?<br />
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I think that we need to do more than MARK OUR TIME. Earth is not a giant waiting area as we hope for heaven.<br />
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We are on a journey of FAITH, and we need to be intentional about the things we are doing on this journey.<br />
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I pray that we all can follow the inspiration of JESUS<br />
and we can<br />
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ADOPT HIS ATTITUDES OF LIFE and DEATH<br />
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BE DELIBERATE IN OUR DAILY ACTIONS and CHOICES<br />
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THAT WE WOULD SEEK TO PLEASE GOD in all WE DO!<br />
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and <br />
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WE WOULD TRY TO MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT for HIS SAKE!<br />
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I agree with the many commentators that state the Psalm above show us GOD has numbered our days<br />
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A) because He is God and He knows all things<br />
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and <br />
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B) because by numbering our days, they become important<br />
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and perhaps most importantly<br />
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C) the more we die to ourselves and face our own mortality in the flesh (SEE the APOSTLE PAUL)<br />
the more we can truly and freely live in our spirits of a CHILD OF GOD!<br />
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EVERY DAY IS ONE THAT GOD CALLS YOU TO LIVE FOR HIM!<br />
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JESUS KNEW THIS - <br />
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some days are big deals<br />
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other days are quiet and simple<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">But all can be lived for GOD!</span><br />
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So that's it!<br />
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SEVEN DAYS - <br />
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None of us know when our last seven days on earth will be, so it might be wise to tackle some of these tasks and have them in the ready.<br />
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Tell those you love, how you love them.<br />
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If there are fences to mend, do your part to mend them, and then you can have peace, even if the other party doesn't receive it.<br />
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If you have a "bucket list" (things you would like to do before you kick that old bucket" <br />
Make plans to DO IT! If you don't have a bucket list - make one! and then DO IT!<br />
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Write those letters and have them in a place that they will bless if they would come to be found.<br />
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And now - for _____________. <br />
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What have you seen happening in your connection with them as you have prayed and reached out to them?<br />
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What changes are you feeling in your heart as you have adopted them for this Lenten Journey?<br />
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Do you feel called to keep praying for them after Easter?<br />
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I will have a testimony to share about my ___________next week.<br />
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I can't believe all that God has done, I had no idea why __________ was the one God put on my heart, but looking back at the events that have transpired. GOD HAD A PLAN!<br />
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I would be eager to hear if others have stories about _______________ as well.<br />
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But that is quite enough for today!<br />
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Let's PRAY!<br />
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Lord it still is so hard to look at death - in our Christian walk we are picturing that Garden tomb. It may be new, it may be in a pleasing place, but it is still a tomb. We thank you for that work of CHRIST CARRYING OUR SINS, GOING TO THE DEPTHS AND CONQUERING DEATH. <br />
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Fill our hearts with anticipation for the early morning discovery - of the EMPTY TOMB and the knowing that OUR REDEEMER LIVES. LORD GUIDE us and bless ___________ on this day - an "numbered" day that YOU have given us to love and care for each other, AMEN!<br />
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preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-84271206335759813092011-04-22T08:38:00.001-04:002011-04-22T08:38:59.775-04:00What happened after the cross - and why Joe from Arimathea is my HERO<div align="justify" class="body2">Not my own writing today - but a great piece from the website truthortradition, credit at the end.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Now I know why God had me resting Mon night and Tuesday - a crazy GOOD day of Holy Spirit led ministering today. WHEW! And a funeral this am followed by gourmet shop fun and busyness leading up to my Easter celebrations.<br />
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So I will let you read this great article that pieces together all four gospels and some of the prophecies that have to do with the Garden Tomb and the STONG FAITH AND OBEDIENCE OF one JOSEPH FROM ARIMATHEA! read on....</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
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</div><blockquote class="body2"><div class="body2"><strong>Matthew 27:57-61</strong><br />
<strong>(57)</strong> As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.<br />
<strong>(58)</strong> Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him.<br />
<strong>(59)</strong> Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,<br />
<strong>(60)</strong> and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.<br />
<strong>(61)</strong> Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.</div></blockquote><div align="justify" class="body2">Jesus died at what would be 3 p.m. our time, and the Passover (a special Sabbath [John 19:31], not the weekly Sabbath would begin at sunset. Joseph knew that he had to act quickly, and John 19:38 tells us that he went to Pilate “secretly for fear of the Jews.” Given what Scripture says about Joseph, this does not mean that he was a fearful man. Rather, it is saying that he was prudent.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Luke 23:50 and 51 says that Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin, the ruling council of Judaism, and that he had not voted for the execution of Jesus. Perhaps he was the lone dissenter. In any case, the council must have known of his allegiance to Jesus, and, given their propensity for evil, he knew that they would stop at nothing to eradicate the memory of this man who had so threatened their evil empire. Therefore, Joseph acted wisely, and went to Pilate without their knowledge. He also knew that Jesus was a public figure over which there was much dispute, and since there was little time to get Jesus into the grave before sunset, he did not want there to be a public debate over what to do with the body.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">In Matthew 27:58, the word “asked” means to boldly implore (the KJV reads “begged”). Joseph’s going to Pilate and persuading him to give him Jesus’ body was no small feat. As a Jew, entering the court of a Gentile like Pilate would have made Joseph ceremonially unclean to eat the Passover the next day, and touching the dead body of Jesus would compound his uncleanness. What a testimony to how much Joseph loved Jesus and how focused he was on seeing the truth of God’s Word come to pass, even at the expense of his being able to celebrate the most sacred of Jewish holidays. Perhaps Joseph recognized that Jesus was the true Passover LAMB that year.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Jerusalem was about 25 miles from Joseph’s hometown of Arimathea, so why would he have had a tomb cut out of the rock <em>there</em>, and why was it so close to Golgotha? </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><strong>Isaiah 53:9a (NIV)</strong><br />
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death...</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Once again, we assert it was because Joseph believed that Jesus was the Messiah, knew that he must be buried “with the rich,” and fully expected him to rise from the dead after 72 hours. <br />
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As we will see, it was this act of faith that made possible the witness of the empty tomb in a prominent place where everyone would know about it. Criminals and the indigent were not given much of a burial, if any, and usually in a place provided by society or government for that purpose, because such burial grounds were unclean. <br />
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Had Jesus been buried “with the wicked” in an obscure place, no witness that he had actually been raised from the dead would have been possible then or throughout history.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Properly understood, Matthew 27:59 confirms the fact that Joseph did not expect Jesus to be in the grave permanently. It says that he took Jesus’ body and “wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.” The Greek word for “wrapped” means that Joseph “rolled up” the body, and the word for “cloth” is <em>sindon</em> (like a sheet), a different word than that used of the traditional burial wrappings that were strips of cloth wound around the body after it had been covered with ointments and spices.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">It is significant that verse 61 says that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there watching what Joseph did. They saw that Joseph did not bury Jesus according to custom. </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">John 19:31 specifically says that the day after Jesus’ crucifixion was “a special Sabbath,” that is, <em>not the weekly Jewish Sabbath</em>, which fell on what we call Saturday. Putting together Scripture with the calendars available today, we see that in the year Jesus died, the Passover was on a Thursday. Jesus died at 3 p.m. on Wednesday and rose from the dead on Saturday between 3 p.m. and sunset. This had to be because according to the Jewish reckoning of time, the next day, the fourth day, started at sunset, and Scripture said he would rise “the third day.” Thus, when the women returned to the tomb before sunrise on Sunday, he was not there —“He is risen!” (Note that the angel did not say to them, “You <em>just</em> missed him!”).</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">A study of all the verses related to this subject shows that the women saw that Joseph did not embalm Jesus (on Wednesday), so they went home to prepare the proper spices to do so, which they could not do on Thursday (the High Sabbath) or Saturday (the weekly Sabbath). They believed that Jesus should have a proper burial, but the Sanhedrin had made sure that the tomb was sealed and guarded for three days (Matt. 27:63-66). That meant that the earliest they could get into the tomb was Sunday morning. As would be expected given their close relationships with Jesus, they were there as early as possible.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Late Wednesday afternoon (the day of preparation for the Passover), when Joseph and the women had left the tomb, Nicodemus entered the picture, and what he did is recorded only in the gospel of John. </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">In John 19:38 and 39, the NIV blurs the fact that Nicodemus (the same man in John 3 and 7) came to the grave later—after Joseph had left. As a man of means, he would have had plenty of help to do what verse 40 says “they” did—“wound the body in linen clothes with spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury” (KJV). </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">The Greek word for “clothes” is <em>othonion</em>, which means “grave wrappings or bandages.” Therefore, “they” could not be Joseph and Nicodemus, because we already know that Joseph simply wrapped the body in a sheet (<em>sindon</em>). It is also noteworthy that the women saw Joseph but not Nicodemus. The women watched Joseph, saw that he had not given Jesus a “proper burial” and went off to buy the spices to do it themselves. Then, after Joseph and the women had gone, Nicodemus and his helpers came (you would want helpers if you were carrying 75 pounds of spices and a bunch of cloth) and they gave Jesus a more formal burial, but one that did not anticipate his resurrection.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">What Nicodemus did is why, when Peter and another disciple ran to the tomb, they saw the <em>othonion </em>(John 20:5), the mummy-like linen grave wrappings that had been around Jesus but were then empty. Nicodemus also loved Jesus very much, and in order to honor him with a proper burial he was willing to make himself unclean for the Passover by touching Jesus’ dead body, but he apparently did not believe Jesus would rise from the dead, as evidenced by his embalming his body. Although Joseph did not anoint Jesus’ body according to custom, it was he who most honored him by believing his words that he would rise from the dead.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Let us summarize the sequence of events. On Wednesday afternoon, as soon as Jesus was dead, Joseph went quickly to Pilate, persuaded him to give him the body, took it to the nearby tomb he had had cut in a rock, wrapped it in a sheet and rolled the stone in front of the opening. The women, who dearly loved Jesus, saw what he did and went home to prepare the spices for a proper burial. Shortly after they left, Nicodemus came and prepared the body according to the Jewish burial custom. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday passed, and early Sunday the women returned to the tomb, only to find the empty tomb—Jesus had risen from the dead.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">The heroism of Joseph of Arimathea in the burial of Jesus stands out vividly in His-story. Quite a number of other people did come to believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but when Jesus died they were caught off guard and confused. Since childhood, their Jewish culture had taught them that the Messiah would live forever (John 12:34). They expected him to get an army together, conquer their Roman oppressors, oust the Pharisees and Sadducees, and rule the world. When Jesus died on the cross, they did not know what to do, and many were scattered. In contrast, Joseph believed that Jesus would rise from the dead, and as we have seen, acted accordingly, burying him “with the rich.”</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Suppose that Joseph of Arimathea had not stepped up and followed God’s leading based upon the prophecies in His Word? Suppose that Jesus’ body had been buried in the ground in an obscure and unclean area? Would that have stopped God from raising him from the dead? Absolutely not.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><strong><em>But it would have negated the reverberating witness of the empty tomb!!!</em></strong></div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">And that is why Joseph of Arimathea is a true hero.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">One man, a man with strengths and weaknesses like all men, a man whose heart was no doubt pounding like a piston as he approached Pilate’s palace, but a man who kept going because he loved Jesus and believed that he was who he said he was. One man who was prepared for both the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus. One man who stayed when even the disciples closest to Jesus had fled. <br />
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One man who believed the Word of God, having no idea of the centuries-long ramifications of his obedience.</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Joseph was the only Joseph God had. What about you? You are the only you God has. </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">You too can believe the written Word of God and act accordingly. </div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">Who knows where the resurrected Lord Jesus will lead you in your walk with him? Who knows the everlasting impact of your following him day by day into whatever situations he knows you can handle with his help?</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">The witness of the empty tomb still beckons to you—Jesus is alive, and he wants to live his life in you as you live for him. What else is there to do?</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2"><a href="http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=369">http://www.truthortradition.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=369</a></div><div align="justify" class="body2"><br />
</div><div align="justify" class="body2">ARE YOU PRAYING FOR____________________? I am praying for all who read this - to examine GODS WORD AND OUR HEARTS DURING THE TIME OF REMEMBRANCE for the darkest days of history.....Don't worry - the LIGHT IS RETURNING!</div>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-8069474765565896812011-04-20T21:45:00.000-04:002011-04-20T21:45:12.651-04:00Pierced for our Transgressions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnec6UGDd58UIWM3p3leO2TxKtDCZjTEzd-yGlZgr46AxdiZtQxv9F0dQivwdyYtNxMmdDds8xMautDrd2qrb4BG4ATJrWs5pYlF9IUpP9TSJFPyiw7_CcFn7y1LWDAm8jsTHhZl0Z4o/s1600/nailcross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnec6UGDd58UIWM3p3leO2TxKtDCZjTEzd-yGlZgr46AxdiZtQxv9F0dQivwdyYtNxMmdDds8xMautDrd2qrb4BG4ATJrWs5pYlF9IUpP9TSJFPyiw7_CcFn7y1LWDAm8jsTHhZl0Z4o/s1600/nailcross.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>Isaiah 53 1-12</strong><br />
He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us <!--google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore)-->peace<!--google_ad_section_end--> was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied ; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.</em></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">All the above was written over 500 years prior to the birth of CHRIST. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don't think I need to add a thing more today.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we mourn our part in His crucifixion and we await the LIGHT HE BRINGS as </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">HE CRUSHES DEATH.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I praise God for HIS PERFECT PLAN</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">and I PRAY for you and for me and we all pray for _____________</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">as the LIGHT SHINES UPON the DARKNESS.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">LIGHT ALWAYS WINS, you know!</span></div>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-74748332868358444222011-04-20T08:33:00.000-04:002011-04-20T08:33:16.782-04:00CRUCIFY HIM! We want to get to our Passover!Before we get to the CROSS and the darknest moment of history, I want to take a bit of time on the events of the night before the crucifixion. Jesus is paraded around and God, Himself is mocked.<br />
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After His arrest, Jesus faced three trials. <br />
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Finally Caiaphas, the high priest, asked him straightly, “Are you the Christ?” Jesus confessed, “Yes I am, and you will see the Son of Man coming in judgment”. The leaders were furious and demanded that He be executed for blasphemy.<br />
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Jesus was tried before Annas, the former high priest; Caiaphas, the current high priest; and the Sanhedrin. He was charged in these “ecclesiastical” trials with blasphemy, claiming to be the Son of God, the Messiah.<br />
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The trials before Jewish authorities, the religious trials, showed the degree to which the Jewish leaders hated Him because they carelessly disregarded many of their own laws. There were several illegalities involved in these trials from the perspective of Jewish law: (1) No trial was to be held during feast time. (2) Each member of the court was to vote individually to convict or acquit, but Jesus was convicted by acclamation. (3) If the death penalty was given, a night must pass before the sentence was carried out; however, only a few hours passed before Jesus was placed on the Cross. (4) The Jews had no authority to execute anyone. (5) No trial was to be held at night, but this trial was held before dawn. (6) The accused was to be given counsel or representation, but Jesus had none. (7) The accused was not to be asked self-incriminating questions, but Jesus was asked if He was the Christ.<br />
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Puts a new light on the term Jesus used to decribe religious leaders - hypocrites! (makes me leary - I keep remembering that more is "caught" than "taught".)<br />
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They sent him to Pilate, (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%2018.23" lbsreference="John 18.23|ESV" target="_blank">John 18:23</a>) after Jesus was beaten. The charges brought against Him were very different from the charges in His religious trials. He was charged with inciting people to riot, forbidding the people to pay their taxes, and claiming to be King. Pilate found no reason to kill Jesus so he sent Him to Herod (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%2023.7" lbsreference="Luke 23.7|ESV" target="_blank">Luke 23:7</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Standing before Herod</span> found Jesus ridiculed, but Herod, wanting to avoid the political liability, sent Jesus back to Pilate (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%2023.11-12" lbsreference="Luke 23.11-12|ESV" target="_blank">Luke 23:11-12</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was the last trial</span> as Pilate tried to appease the animosity of the Jews by having Jesus scourged. The Roman scourge is a terrible whipping of 39 lashes. <br />
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In a final effort to have Jesus released, Pilate offered the prisoner Barabbas to be crucified and Jesus released, but to no avail. The crowds called for Barabbas to be released and Jesus to be crucified. Pilate granted their demand and surrendered Jesus to their will (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%2023.25" lbsreference="Luke 23.25|ESV" target="_blank">Luke 23:25</a>). The trials of Jesus represent the ultimate mockery of justice. Jesus, the most innocent man in the history of the world, was found guilty of crimes and sentenced to death by crucifixion.<br />
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<em><u>reference</u> Matthew 26:57 to 27:31; Mark 14:54 to 15:15; Luke 22:54 to 23:25; John 18:13 to 19:16 and Jesus the Greatest Life of all by Charles Swindoll.</em><br />
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So the rest of the world went on to their holiday feast preparations, Christ went to Calvary.<br />
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I could go on today about the road to Calvary, about the words spoken on the cross or about the many many prophecies that were fulfilled. But enough for now - <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we must accept that that RELIGIOUS LEADERS, GOVERNMENT LEADERS, and ALL OF THE ASSEMBLED POPULATION all wanted one thing </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Jesus out of the way - </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">so they could have their way.</span> <br />
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but it's not just them, <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>It's US!</strong></span><br />
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Everytime we claim Christ as Messiah,<br />
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but ingore the hard teachings of obeying God's word - <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we crucify HIM</span><br />
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Everytime we cling to our salvation, yet ignore the Holy Spirit<br />
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convicting us to CONFESS AND REPENT of our sin <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we crucify HIM</span><br />
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Even we rush ahead of GOD's PLAN <br />
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certain that God will bless what we do <br />
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even without consulting or waiting on HIM, <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we pile onto the CROSS...</span><br />
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as we ponder the next 3 days and nights many aspects of the darkness <br />
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I know I will face my own.....<br />
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I pray as Christ did in John 17 <br />
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for my self - that I might hear and obey, <br />
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for those who profess Christ that we would pick up our crosses and follow HIM and<br />
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for the WORLD who still lives in that darkness but is waiting, just longing for the GOOD NEWS of this empty tomb!<br />
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How did ____________ respond to you? KEEP PRAYING AND OBEYING!<br />
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</span></span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-13037069459644681482011-04-19T14:46:00.000-04:002011-04-19T14:46:11.408-04:00Getting Ready for the Passover - for all HUMANITY Actually, today I am going to hit on this timing question again <br />
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about what happened when.<br />
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And the bottom line is that we weren't there <br />
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and many scholars who I respect for many reasons disagree strongly about all the timing.<br />
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So in the end - the timing really doesn't matter,<br />
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but as a friend told me today,<br />
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"it's important to look at and discover<br />
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what the text says<br />
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and doesn't say <br />
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because those who attack the gospel <br />
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are doing so as a reason <br />
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to tear apart faith."<br />
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I personally don't need to know,<br />
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but looking at Christ's atoning work on the cross as <br />
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fulfillment to many prophecies<br />
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lead me to this conclusion<br />
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Church tradition likes to make things<br />
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all neat and tidy<br />
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it fits so well on the church calendar.<br />
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We have Thursday Night Last Suppers<br />
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Good Friday vigils<br />
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just spend some time on filling those Saturdays<br />
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( and yes, I might add - LENT with it's neat 40 days with even 6 Sundays off) OUCH!<br />
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and boom, Sunday Morning Early on we a re good to go!<br />
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That is less than 72 hours in the tomb.<br />
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This year for the first time - the mainstream media (is even addressing this) see the link.<br />
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<a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42643674?GT1=43001">http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42643674?GT1=43001</a><br />
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As I have been studying and researching all week, I keep finding more articles, primarily by Messianic Jews (Those of Jewish faith who have accepted Christ (Yeshua/Jesus) as Messiah.<br />
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The more I walk as a Christian and a Pastor, I have been burdened to understand Christ as a practicing and observant Jew. For us to receive our salvation open to all, it is important to understand the context of the religion that Jesus was raised in and the meaning of the sacrifice that He became to so that all of us choose choose eternal life and be "PASS"ed "OVER" for eternal death.<br />
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So that being said - I am glad that churches have services on Thursday night (frankly, I wish more people would attend them.) I do agree that the empty tomb and the discovery of the resurrection happened at dawn on Sunday Morning, but the more research I am doing, and the more I realize is not written in the gospels, but in tradition......I think we have our timing wrong.<br />
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It does say that the disciples asked Jesus where they should "make ready" the Passover meal (and thus he directed them to discover the upper room). Matthew 26:19 It also says that Jesus and the disciples later, "when it was evening, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve" ate a meal Matthew 26:20. We presume that it was their Passover meal, but nowhere does it say that it was....<br />
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So why do I write this today?<br />
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I will take you to another passage in Matthew 12: 38-40<br />
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<strong><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">38</span></sup></strong> Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” <br />
<sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23525"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">39</span></strong></sup> But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23526"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">40</span></strong></sup> For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man <u>be three days and</u> <u>three nights in the heart of the earth</u>.<br />
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and also to the scheming of the scribes and pharisees in Matthew 26:1-5<br />
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-24052"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></strong></sup> Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, <i>that</i> He said to His disciples, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-24053"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></strong></sup> “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”<br />
<sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-24054"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></strong></sup> Then the chief priests, the scribes,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-24054a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span><a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-24054a" title="See footnote a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">]</span></sup> and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-24055"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></strong></sup> and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill <i>Him.</i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-24056"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></strong></sup> But they said, “<u>Not during the feast,</u> lest there be an uproar among the people.”<br />
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So all that being said - <br />
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as I try to piece all this together<br />
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I think the crucifixion happened before the Passover Sabbath - which would have begun on Wednesday night as dusk.<br />
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Tuesday tonight, at dusk as the disciples had secured the upper room and were in the process of preparing the passover for an upcoming day...<br />
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The "last supper", the footwashing, the time at Gethsemane, the betrayal and overnight tonight the THREE trials began with the horrible beatings in between.<br />
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BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY the CALL OF THE NEW COVENANT THAT WOULD BE THE PASSOVER FOR ALL - <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not going to go deeply into this today - we will visit it as well after we understand how Jesus poured out his blood and sacrificed his body so that we would have this new covenant.</div><br />
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Wednesday morning as most of the city was preparing and milling about like our "Christmas Eve" making their last dash - preparations, the Pontius Pilate was showing the "good will" of the Roman government and those in the festive holiday crowd choose to free Barabbas and CRUCIFY CHRIST again BEFORE THE FEAST.... (more on that tomorrow :(.<br />
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With this time table, Jesus would be on the cross during the day Wednesday and be sealed with his physical body dead in the garden tomb by the time dusk fell and the passover feast was beginning that was also considered an extra Sabbath day - see Mark 15 :42 <br />
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He would be in the belly of the earth <br />
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Wednesday night<br />
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Thursday all day and night (which was the Passover Sabbath)<br />
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Friday all day and night<br />
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Saturday all day....(which was the traditional Sabbath)<br />
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but as the Jews marked their days - the new day began at dusk -So on Saturday evening as the moon rose, that is what Messianic Jews suppose he arose and I will comment more on that as it draws near.<br />
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But back to Matthew 28:1 and we see that on the morning of the first of the week, Sunday - the women "went after the Sabbath (this the regular day of rest) to finally attempt to anoint his body for burial that they discovered the empty tomb".<br />
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So, that my friends is where I am at! In the end does it matter when?<br />
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in a word <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">NO</span><br />
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I do not expect the world to conform to me<br />
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BUT<br />
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I do pray that we all ponder<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">what </span>just happened - <br />
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Christ on the day of preparation for the sabbath that was the passover<br />
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was slain<br />
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and his blood <br />
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that knew no sin<br />
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covered our sins <br />
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so that we could be<br />
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made to be in <br />
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HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS! (2 Corinthians 5:21)<br />
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So tomorrow we go to the cross,<br />
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brace yourself,<br />
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I am not even sure what we are in for.<br />
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Do you know what ____________ has planned for an Easter observance? I think you should find out!<br />
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As you pray today remember ______________ and make it a point to include them in your life this weekend. God will lead you, if YOU LET HIM!<br />
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Thanks for taking this difficult journey with me!<br />
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This discipline is been both harder and easier than I thought it would be.<br />
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I will be relieved when I am released to go from teaching/investigation mode back to pithy devotional/testimony mode!<br />
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late today because this required much prayer and wrestling to communicate....<br />
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email or message me your feedback<br />
I do not expect agreement - but I would hope for honest discussion!<br />
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Love and prayers to you all....<br />
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preacher on her hike o' life/lentpreachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-51443888870492665572011-04-18T07:08:00.000-04:002011-04-18T07:08:18.575-04:00SO MUCH TO TELL....<span style="font-family: Cambria;"> <div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong><sup>37</sup></strong> “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23953"><strong>38</strong></sup> See! Your house is left to you desolate; <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23954"><strong>39</strong></sup> for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’”</em></span><sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-23954g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup></div><div align="left"><sup>Matthew 23; 37-39 (NJKV)</sup></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left"><sup><span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever had so much to accomplish but seemingly so little time? I can't imagine how our Savior felt as the scribes and pharisees kept trying to trap him and he had so much to teach and say to the diciples.</span></sup></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left">This day for Jesus was a day of great disputations </div><div align="left">-- a busy, stormy day of public debates with </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">They challenged the authority of Our Lord… </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Our Lord told</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">the thinly-</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">veiled parable of the vine dressers… </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He answered the question of tribute to Caesar… </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">the case presented by the Sadducees about the woma</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">n with seven </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">husbands and the resurrection… the Greatest Commandment …. </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Our Lord </span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">questioned them about the "Son of David." </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He concluded the debates with a denunciation of the Pharisees and the "Seven Woes," </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He expressed an anguished lament over Jerusalem,</span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">and commented on the widow's mite. Leaving the city, </span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He crossed over to Mt. Olivet and sadly predicted that there would be left "not a stone</span> </div><div align="left">upon a stone." </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Asked about the end of Jerusalem and the world He gave the</div>eschatological discourse, and told the parable of the virgins to teach watchfulness.<br />
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Are you tired yet? I am!<br />
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There are many many scriptures listed below, all are placed in the timeframe of these few days in history! I list them not because I expect you to read them all in one setting, but so that you can appreiciate the urgency Jesus was working under. It all was taking place. Just as God had planned, teaching us, warning us, loving us, making us ready to recieve the greatest love and gift of all....<br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem </span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:1-9</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:1-10</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:28-40</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:12-19</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jesus in Jerusalem (Cleansing the Temple), Return to Bethany</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:10-17</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:11</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:15-17</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:45-46</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Cursing of the Fig Tree</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:18-19</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:12-14</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Second Cleansing of the Temple</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:12-13</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:15-17</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:45-46</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:18-19</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:47-48</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:20-22</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">6:14-15</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:20-26</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Question about Jesus' Authority</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:23-27</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">11:27-33</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">20:1-8</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:33-46</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:1-12</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">20:9-19</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Question about the Resurrection</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">22:23-33</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:18-27</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">20:27-40</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.the-ten-commandments.org/greatest_commandment.html"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Great Commandment</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">22:34-40</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:28-34</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">10:25-28</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:41-44</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:1-4</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<div style="background: white; border-bottom: #b5ca91 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #B5CA91 .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 3pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 7.05pt 0in 8.45pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #B5CA91 .75pt; mso-outline-level: 2; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 3.0pt 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">14. The Olivet Discourse</span></b></div></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pericope</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Matthew</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mark</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Luke</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">John</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Prediction of the Destruction of the Temple</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:1-2</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:1-2</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:5-6</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Signs before the End</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:3-8</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:3-8</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:7-11</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Persecutions Foretold</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:9-14</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">10:17-22a</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:9-13</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:12-19</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">17:37b</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Time of the Coming. the Parable of the Fig Tree</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:32-36</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:28-32</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:29-33</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Conclusion. “Take Heed, Watch!” (According to Mark)</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">25:13-15</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:42</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:33-37</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:12-13</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pericope</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Matthew</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Mark</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Luke</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">John</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Parable of the Flood and Exhortation to Watchfulness</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:37-44</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:35</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">17:26-36</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:39-40</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Parable of the Good Servant and the Wicked Servant</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">24:45-51</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">12:41-46</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Parable of the Ten Virgins</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">25:1-13</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Parable of the Talents</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">25:14-30</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">13:34</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">19:11-27</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 190.6pt;" valign="top" width="254"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Last Judgment</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">25:31-46</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.gospelparallels.com/gospelparallels.html#1"><b><span style="color: #67705a; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">21:37-38</span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #ebe9ed; border-left: #ebe9ed; border-right: #ebe9ed; border-top: #ebe9ed; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; width: 47.3pt;" valign="top" width="63"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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Have you made your Easter plans? Have you included _________ in your day?<br />
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Lord we pray - guide us - lead us- put the desire within us to obey....<br />
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Amen.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria;">the scribes and ancients. </span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-41824255792391556712011-04-16T22:06:00.010-04:002011-04-17T07:44:16.624-04:00CLEANING THINGS UP FOR DAD...Well happy Palm Sunday everyone.<br />
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Did you take your sabbath day walk?<br />
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I actually am preaching our "7 Days" sermon today. Our comments in blogdom will hit here later in the week.<br />
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Now that we have explored some of the cultural and contextual things about "Palm Saturday" I want to revisit the destination of that "Sabbath day's walk" that Mark 11:11 told us they walked to the Temple.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">And what did the Lord of the Sabbath do when He reached the temple? Mark tells us that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em><span style="font-size: large;">"Jesus entered into Jerusalem and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve." </span></em>Mark 11:11. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It was the Sabbath. All was quiet. </span><br />
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Jesus took a look around the place!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">There were no money-changers or merchants at work in the temple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The Lord Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, simply inspected His house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> "</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He looked round about on all things." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Herod's temple was a beautiful structure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But despite the beauty of this magnificent edifice, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">our Lord saw a great deal of ugliness, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The evidence of a sinful and disobedient people was all around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">But on this particular day, Nisan the tenth, the temple area was quiet, for it was a Sabbath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Thus our Lord simply inspected His Father's house and then withdrew Himself to Bethany</span><br />
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Let's remember that the Sabbath has now past and what we call Sunday, was for Jesus and the disciples the first day of the week, like a Monday to us!<br />
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I am going to let Wayne Carver describe this scene to you as Jesus and the disciples have gone back to the Temple.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">"This day was Sunday, Nisan the eleventh, the first day of the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">On the first day of the week, Sunday, the temple area was a beehive of activity once again. Only two days remained until the fourteenth of Nisan which ushered in the eight-day celebration that the Jews referred to interchangeably as the "Feast of Passover" and the "Feast of Unleavened Bread." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">To the temple merchants, Nisan fourteenth was a time of business--big business. There were many thousands of pilgrims present in Jerusalem. They had come from all over the Roman Empire. Many of then had only Roman money or money from their homeland, and this money had to be exchanged for the "shekels" of the temple in order to be useful for the buying of sacrifices and for giving in offerings. Those who had traveled far were unable to bring animals for sacrifice; so these had to be purchased. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This was like "Christmas" for the temple merchants. The business that they did during the Passover season often determined whether their fiscal years were successes or failures. In the same way, many businesses of our day have to depend on their volume of Christmas business for financial "success." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">So on this first day of the week, the money-changers and merchants were in their booths early. No doubt they were calling out to the pilgrims who passed into the temple courts, hawking their merchandise and services.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> It is no wonder that the Lord Jesus Christ, in righteous anger, said to them, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves." </em></span>Mark 11:17. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">And in this we see the fulfillment of the prophecy of Malachi 3:1.<span style="font-size: large;"><em> </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>"And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." </em></span></span><br />
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Today is the day that you have entered God's house of worship that you attend. <br />
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You might attend a church that is pleasing to look at.<br />
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You might feel comfortable there.<br />
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Jesus saw all those things when he visited the Temple as well, but if we are on this Hike O Life to really understand what God wants the questions are going to get a bit harder.<br />
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Would God be pleased with the hearts of prayer in your place of worship?<br />
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Would God be pleased with YOUR HEART OF PRAYER?<br />
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Or should you be watching for overturned tables?<br />
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MY PRAYER - is for us to open our hearts and our worship and ask God to clean with us....and help us take down the false tables before He feels the need to come and do it with his righteous and powerful judgement....<br />
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<em>Lord, the scene of our Saviour having to turn over tables seems so hard, but yet we have things in our ways, that are just as bad. Lord - COME - SAVE US! HOSANNA. Help us submit to your ways, turn from our own selfishness, greed and pride and just admit how much we need YOUR HAND. TAKE THOSE THINGS IN US - and turn them over, if they do not bear fruit for you. AND LORD with a humble heart - we lift the name of _________________to you this day.....have YOUR WAY with us and with them....We praise your glorious NAME.... AMEN</em><br />
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A sincere prayer request for guidance in preparing and preaching at a funeral service on Monday - God is in this and will lead. Many thanks!preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-78563785385006196672011-04-16T08:02:00.000-04:002011-04-16T08:02:50.588-04:00A SIMPLE SABBATH WALK!<h3><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="cursor: default;"></span></span> </h3><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default;"> <sup>1</sup> As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, <sup>2</sup> saying to them, <span class="woj">“Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.</span> <span class="woj"><sup>3</sup> If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’”</span> </span></em></span></span></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> 4 They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, 5 some people standing there asked, “What are you doing, untying that colt?” 6 They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. 7 When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. 8 Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. 9 Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted, </em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> “Hosanna![</em></span></sup><a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2011&version=NIV#fen-NIV-24650a" title="See footnote a"><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>a</em></span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>]” </em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[</em></span></sup><a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2011&version=NIV#fen-NIV-24650b" title="See footnote b"><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>b</em></span></sup></a><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>] </em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> 10 “Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” </em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> “Hosanna in the highest heaven!” </em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> 11 Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.</em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em>Mark 11: 1-11</em></span></sup></h3><h3><sup></sup><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em> </em></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvoCz4kx545xOuKqi_tnwcxxd2wbFUWZLx6GTBjXpl2E-zw_IV-GCmuwVo06_ODo2YGJkT12rljUA5xqEmJ0UrACzBTT0zdb2RZBLc2t-zwYmqWULNak92u4sv6NxKaxBebQ9sYh4LIY/s1600/Palm_Sunday_2006_005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDvoCz4kx545xOuKqi_tnwcxxd2wbFUWZLx6GTBjXpl2E-zw_IV-GCmuwVo06_ODo2YGJkT12rljUA5xqEmJ0UrACzBTT0zdb2RZBLc2t-zwYmqWULNak92u4sv6NxKaxBebQ9sYh4LIY/s320/Palm_Sunday_2006_005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h3><em><sup><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"></span></sup></em> </h3><em><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it's Saturday - but walk with me on this. You have just read what we consider the Palm Sunday scriptures, but if you go back to the passage we read yesterday from John 12. It says "six days before the passover (the following Thursday, so then on Friday, the eve of the Sabbath) they arrived at Bethany (12:1 ) and then the next day (12:1 ) they went into Jerusalem.</span></em><br />
<h3><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></h3><h3><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are going to chat just a bit about being Jewish and in town for the Holy Days. Imagine all the obedient pilgrims making the journey. If you were going today, where would you stay? You would book a hotel. There is no way that were would be enough room at the inn! (oh wait - that's another chapter of Jesus' life on earth.)</span></h3><h3><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While Christ and the disciples had a place to stay with Martha, Mary and Lazarus in Bethany, which is just outside of Jerusalem; many others literally could camp outside the gates of Jerusalem, they would set up booths (tents) and sleep with their family and then proceed to the Temple to purchase and have the priests prepare (butcher) their passover lamb.</span></h3><h3><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now on the Sabbath you were to rest, so even the Temple was quiet, but the folks were resting in their booths and perhaps others were taking a "sabbath day's walk". Remember Judaism had strict rules about what you could and could not do on the Sabbath and traveling was one of the restrictions but look to this traditional definition from Bible Gateway.com.</span></h3><h3><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span name="hotword" style="cursor: default;">Sabbath</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">day's</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">journey</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">definition</span> : </span></span></b><span id="hotword"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">supposed</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">be</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">distance</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">2,000</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">cubits,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">less</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">than</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">half-a-mile,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">distance</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">which,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">according</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">Jewish</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">tradition,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">it</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">was</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">allowable</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">travel</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">on</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">Sabbath</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">day</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">without</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">violating</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">law</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">(Acts</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">1:12;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">comp.</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">Ex.</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">16:29;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">Num.</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">35:5;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">Josh.</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">3:4<strong>).</strong></span><strong> </strong></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, that definition being explained, while in the swelled city during Holy Days, they increased the allowed distance so you could journey from your lodging to the Temple. Jesus and the Disciples were staying just <span style="background-color: white;">in</span> Bethany and would have to walk through the camping grounds to get to town and as verse 11 says, they walked to Jerusalem so He could enter the Temple's outer courts. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As he and the disciples took their Sabbath Day walk the crowd gathered and swelled as they gathered palm branches to wave and even put their coats down. The fame of this teacher and the buzz of all the miracles and thoughtful teacher let the crowd to cry out. Hosanna! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hosanna has a very simple translation.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you think it means?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hallelujah?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Messiah?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOPE,</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> actually </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it is a cry for help,</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A cry for salvation, </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">literally.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What they crowds chanted on that Saturday/Sabbath day long ago was from Psalm 118: 25-26</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">LORD, save us! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we read - Hosanna!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the crowd didn't realized is they were choosing their perfect PASSOVER LAMB. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were recognizing Him as Lord. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They recited the rest of this Hallel (literally hallelujah) that was part of their hymns for Holy Days</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LORD, save us! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> LORD, grant us success! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> From the house of the LORD we bless you! (Psalm 118:25-26)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank You Lord, for coming and we cry out! Lord Save US!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all this happened </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on their hike to the resurrection!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRAYING AND OBEYING AS WE PRAY FOR _______________________.</span>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-63387819895638265942011-04-15T09:47:00.000-04:002011-04-15T09:47:01.106-04:00ROAD TRIP DONE! SETTLED IN FOR SABBATH!<em> </em><span style="font-size: large;"><em><sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26578"><strong>1</strong></sup> Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead,<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-26578a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]">[<a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-26578a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</sup> whom He had raised from the dead. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26579"><strong>2</strong></sup> There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26580"><strong>3</strong></sup> Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.<br />
<sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26581"><strong>4</strong></sup> But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26582"><strong>5</strong></sup> “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-26582b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]">[<a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-26582b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</sup> and given to the poor?” <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26583"><strong>6</strong></sup> This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. <br />
<sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26584"><strong>7</strong></sup> But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-26584c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]">[<a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-26584c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</sup> this for the day of My burial. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26585"><strong>8</strong></sup> For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26586"><strong>9</strong></sup> Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26587"><strong>10</strong></sup> But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-26588"><strong>11</strong></sup> because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. John 12: 1-11 NJKV</em></span><br />
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Ah - TGIF say the disciples, their two day journey from Jericho was complete and since Jesus had such great friends in Martha, Mary and Lazarus they had their housing "booked" in Bethany just on the outskirts of Jerusalem. It is likely that the family had been preparing all day for at sundown the sabbath began. So when their guests arrived, all could relax, enjoy and catch up.<br />
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Indeed much had happened since Lazarus rose from death, likely just a few weeks before. Wouldn't you like to imagine the conversations that were going on at the dinner table.<br />
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But then, much to every ones surprise. Mary breaks out the expensive anointing oil, two of the Gospels say she anointed his head, but John describes it as he did above.<br />
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It was not expected by anyone.<br />
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It was puzzling to all pre crucifixion.<br />
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But as the commentaries I consulted say, it showed a gratefulness, a humility and a love that passes human understanding.<br />
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Bible Gateway commentary sums it up like this....<br />
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"Whether or not Mary fully knew what her actions meant, Jesus did. Mary was preparing him for burial. Jesus was telling his disciples (and us) that he was soon going to die. This is why this story is so important to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, is going to lay down his life for his sheep. Jesus is going to soon die, and Mary was preparing his body for burial."<br />
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"In many ways and on many occasions, we care for our loved ones as they prepare to die. We stroke their foreheads, rub their hands and feet, and touch their skin. Touching someone as he/she prepares to die is a sign of compassion and connectedness even today. If we would rub someone’s forehead and rub their hands and feet and touch their skin in other circumstances, such actions could be misinterpreted as erotic and being overly familiar. But as someone is preparing to die, loving compassion motivates us to gently touch our parent or grandparent or child or dearest friend. Mary, having been a devoted disciple, seemed to comprehend that Jesus was going to die in the near future, more so than his disciples."<br />
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Wow - what a dinner party! And of course we know that these events were all part of God plans, but for now we allow Sabbath rest for our party. From Sundown on Friday til Sundown on Saturday.<br />
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Have you prayed for ________________ today? Have you made contact with ___________ since our journey began? Ask God to show you have to love them and TAKE ACTION. Prayer is our means of positioning ourselves to hear GOD and then say as He guides us YES LORD! <br />
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Have a great day!preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-67753883554576985042011-04-14T13:42:00.000-04:002011-04-14T13:42:46.877-04:006 DAYS - ROAD TRIP! <sup class="versenum" id="en-TNIV-5348"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></strong></sup> You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you <sup class="versenum" id="en-TNIV-5349"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></strong></sup> except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary<sup class="footnote" value="[<a href="#fen-TNIV-5349a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span><a cmimpressionsent="1" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+16&version=TNIV#fen-TNIV-5349a" title="See footnote a"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">]</span></sup> of your departure from Egypt. <sup class="versenum" id="en-TNIV-5350"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></strong></sup> Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. <sup class="versenum" id="en-TNIV-5351"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></strong></sup> For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work. Deuteronomy 16: 5-8 (TNIV)<br />
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Well - none of you defriended me over my outside of tradition position that perhaps Jesus was on the cross on Wednesday instead of Friday! Thanks all for hearing me at least! Before I get into today's topic and I am going to keep it brief. One more tidbit from my research. Some of you might dispute the Wednesday Crucifixion because of the need to get Christ in the tomb before Sabbath (Saturday) fell. The thought was that the High Holy Days of the Day of Atonement and Passover were also indeed Sabbath. As you walk through these last days of Christ's time on earth as human these facts will play out.<br />
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MOST BIBLICAL SCHOLARS AGREE THAT JESUS and the disciples were in Jericho in the weeks before this last Passover, when indeed Jesus became the perfect Passover sacrifice for all who will receive HIM.<br />
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If you have time to take today you can read over Luke 18-19 and see what the some of the events were that had just happened. I find it amazing that the crowds were drawn in Jericho and this is where Zaccheus the cheif tax collector was up in the tree watching Jesus to get a better view. The climate was one of wonder.<br />
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Jesus and the disciples had just wrapped up a lot of ministry and were obediently obeying the scriptures as commanded and noted above in Deuteromony to celebrate Passover, not in the town they were in, but in the place (Jerusalem) where God had allowed His Temple to be established.<br />
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And so they begin. I would ask you to picture it like us wrapping up our jobs to take our Christmas vacation. The disciples were likely anticpating all they would see as everybody was coming into town. Jesus himself was probably looking forward to a good long chat with Lazarus, whom he had just raised from the dead in the last few months. Indeed, the ministry team would be on the move on their two day trip, to the city, for the holidays. <br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"> I thank you all for your patience with my random time of posting each day. God has me on some pretty intense road trips right now. I arose early to post this blog before I started a planned day off and was going to have plenty of time to work on our seven day responses and my sermon for this Sunday. However as soon as my alarm went off, I saw some calls overnight and immediately headed out to spend time with one of God's children who is spending his last days on earth before heaven. I look at this friend and see how he has spent his last 7 days and now these last hours as his entire family is around him. He has peace in his spirit and I believe is praying even as his body suffers for Jesus to comfort his family.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It is a journey - and if you are not allowing Christ to be a part of all your difficulties, I pray that you are able to do this on our WAY TO THE RESURRECTION! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Lord, I can't imagine how Jesus felt as He was leading his disciples for this last "road trip" of the many they took in three years of ministry all over Isreal, but I do know how I feel today. I pray for my own understanding to deepen as we ponder your steps, I pray for ________________ and the journey they are on as you led us to the places we can meet you. I pray comfort over my friend as he is ready to meet you in heaven and comfort on his family as they mourn. Help us all to PRAISE YOU THIS DAY and sense the many things you are showing us on this hike ' o life. amen......</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tomorrow - 5 days - dinner with friends.....</div>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-85598158387373232322011-04-13T10:25:00.002-04:002011-04-13T10:25:14.349-04:007 DAYS - Packing for a big trip!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-wqVNyz6rXsrzMCVr8g6NI7hvgSOFPGubRkI-apMOwvcD_b59kjkJ2eFy3QVsHlLa_E5eYdtGFK7mbe0BadM-0uiuEvzuB4G9WyEnGt6DYDSnYyiTDuga3TeM5oRDS9EX53-ZAR8M0w/s1600/df_Jericho_Trail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX-wqVNyz6rXsrzMCVr8g6NI7hvgSOFPGubRkI-apMOwvcD_b59kjkJ2eFy3QVsHlLa_E5eYdtGFK7mbe0BadM-0uiuEvzuB4G9WyEnGt6DYDSnYyiTDuga3TeM5oRDS9EX53-ZAR8M0w/s1600/df_Jericho_Trail.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center"><em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Heading NE from Jericho to Jerusalem </span></em></div><br />
<em> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3404"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></strong></sup> The LORD said to Moses, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3405"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></strong></sup> “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. </em><br />
<em> <b>The Sabbath</b> </em><br />
<em> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3406"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></strong></sup> “‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD. </em><br />
<em> <b>The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread</b> </em><br />
<em> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3407"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></strong></sup> “‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3408"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></strong></sup> The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3409"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></strong></sup> On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3410"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></strong></sup> On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-3411"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></strong></sup> For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’” Leviticus 23: 1-8</em><br />
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Greetings all!<br />
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I am busy compiling all the results from all of you who have responded to the survey of 7 days. For the next seven days, I am going to be examining some of the activities that scholars presume happened to Jesus on the last seven days of His earthly ministry before the cross.<br />
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I ask for your grace in this walk and pray also for each of us to have what one of my seminary professors call a "sanctified imagination". In other words, let's try to picture the scene and enter in so that we may better understand what Jesus did for ALL OF US.<br />
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Some events scholars agree happened on specific days, while others of course disagree. None of us know for sure. The scholars whose research I am using are Dr. Paul Kaufman of Ashland Theological Seminary and Rev Wayne Carver who is very involved in the Christian Jew Association of America. Both of these gentlemen have researched the Gospel accounts and other historical records of the time (primarily those of Flavious Josephus, a roman contemporary writer who recorded much that correlates with scriptures and adds additional cultural insights of these times.) In our journey, we are going get back to understanding that Jesus was an observant and obedient Jew and also begin to understand how indeed Jesus FULFILLS all of the requirements of Messiah as set for by God in the Old Testament.<br />
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First off - have you ever wondered why Easter is sometimes in mid March and sometimes in late April, (as it is this year)? It is because it follows the timing of Pesach or Passover as we call it on the Jewish Calendar. <br />
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The Jewish calendar is based upon the a 24 four hour day just like we are now, but the months are based upon the moon's revolving around the earth. Think about it from an ancient standpoint, you could tell when the moon was full or when the moon was slim. We have to depend on scientists and depend on a calendar. The problem with this system is instead of leap days, they have leap months. Passover happens in the month of Nisan (Nissan). Today you see this OT scripture that give us guidance for the Passover feast on the day of the month.<br />
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You might ask why are you starting at 7 days - well according to the Jewish tradition of when the Passover fell in the Jewish month - what we call Good Friday, was more than likely a Wednesday and Jesus indeed was in the earth for a full 3 days or 72 hours before raising on in between sundown on Sabbath (Saturday) and dawn of the next day, when the women made the discovery. (this is based upon looking back at the days of the Jewish calendar to the correlating Roman year) but of course this detail is known only by God. <br />
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Have I shocked you with all this information? It is one of many occasions of where church tradition has kinda superseded what might have actually been. BUT WHETHER JESUS was nailed to the cross on a Wednesday or a Friday the point is he took on our sins and we WE REMEMBER!<br />
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So anyway.....<br />
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I didn't want this to be so long, so lets go back to the scripture.<br />
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Jesus and the disciples where tying up loose ends where they where (we suppose it was Jericho) more on that tomorrow and preparing to make the dusty rugged trip to Jerusalem for the Passover observance. Jesus knew that the climax of his earthly mission was about to happen. The disciples, not so much!<br />
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This sacred assembly that Moses called for was to happen at the Temple in Jerusalem. Thousands of other pilgrims were also packing for this trip of their Faith and their tradition. <br />
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I ask as you pray today you imagine Jesus and the disciples preparing for this journey, that you ask for strength for the journey you are on and that we all would see God as we walk these last difficult days to the resurrection.<br />
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As we pray today for our lives and for_________________. We praise God for what he endured for us and ask to consider the humanness of knowing there were only 7 days of this part of life. Jesus knew heaven of course and He came to bring the Kingdom to earth so we could KNOW, TRUST and HAVE CERTAINLY about Heaven as well.<br />
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Have a great day - Thanks for traveling along<br />
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<div align="center"></div>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-9988598622098336852011-04-12T17:42:00.000-04:002011-04-12T17:42:45.216-04:00Soups, Soups, Soups and a funny thing happened as I tried to blog!<div class="subject"><strong></strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in heaven and in earth, in seas and in all deeps.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">Psalm 135:6</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I got the recipes ready last night, all set to post the last of the soup blogs early this morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I did get up on time, actually ahead of on time! But took long with my Bible reading and had to answer some emails and ran out of time before I left the house on my day off routine of volunteering this am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What a day! Mostly good, but not really as planned. Have you ever had one of those days?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lots of unexpected curves and spontaneous events that sometimes I would tend brush off and say, NO I HAVE TO KEEP TO MY SCHEDULE, but today had the opportunity for some very meaningful discussions with others and got some important stuff done in my own emotional and physical self care, I sense that I have accomplished the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS for today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I haven't even taken a look at my To-DO list for the day yet and in a few minutes it's supper and Bible study after.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But, while I haven't tackled my to do list - I suspect that God is having His way with me today and as I look at it, that is what is most important!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So those of you who have been looking for the blog - here it is! Thanks for you emails/and concern. I AM GREAT! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The recipes are not my own, but ones that have been shared with me by other readers. I haven't tried them, although I have made one very similar to the tortellini soup, that is a bit pricey to make, BUT QUICK AND DELICIOUS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">PRAY FOR _________________!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">and thanks all feedback you have given me on 7 days. I am compiling it and will be using it in blog next week and in my sermon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">OK DINNER CALLS ME! JUST KEEP FOCUSED ON HIM in the crazy old hike o' life!</span><br />
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3 C peeled diced carrots<br />
2 C chicken or veggie broth<br />
1 med shallot<br />
1 tsp dried tarragon, crumbled<br />
1 bay leaf<br />
pinch nutmeg<br />
Bring all of the above to a boil, when carrots are soft, remove bay lear then put in blender till smooth. Return to original pot on low. </div><div class="content"></div><div class="content">Melt 1 T butter in small saucepan and whisk in 1 T flour. Cook for 1 min. Then Whisk into above carrot mixture. Bring to boil THEN reduce heat to low and stir in 1 C whipping cream and salt & pepper to taste. Add more broth if needed.</div><div class="content"></div><div class="content"><div class="ingredients" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h3> </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9qS9yRMkKpSkXPSQPjZqym9N8XySIRYnWFOSkH1YS-8CveL9OW0bSZdoQeiR87Zju_wt3DBhqU2Fi4Y0P4w9gmM2ZkLK3o2nJuS10vefEVze_Bzes3tV-BynwO-WRWbTSDS8FAqkFQgo/s1600/l_R112816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9qS9yRMkKpSkXPSQPjZqym9N8XySIRYnWFOSkH1YS-8CveL9OW0bSZdoQeiR87Zju_wt3DBhqU2Fi4Y0P4w9gmM2ZkLK3o2nJuS10vefEVze_Bzes3tV-BynwO-WRWbTSDS8FAqkFQgo/s1600/l_R112816.jpg" /></a></div><h3>Creamy Tortellini Soup</h3><h3>Ingredients</h3><ul><li class="plaincharacterwrap">1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach </li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken or vegetabke broth</li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">1 (9 ounce) package cheese tortellini </li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">1/4 tablespoon dried basil </li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">1/4 tablespoon garlic powder </li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">1/2 cup shredded carrots</li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">1 -2 cups alfredo sauce (optional)</li>
<li class="plaincharacterwrap">salt and pepper to taste </li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My Palm Sunday message as a pulpit supply is going to be called 7 days -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have had almost a dozen respondents so far - I am going to tally up some survey results and use them as part of my sermon...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So if you are stirred to answer, please email me or message me on face book with your answers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Believe it or not - no one has mentioned getting all the laundry done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And carry the worship in your heart all week long!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Darcy</div>preachergirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201636682585705246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081811856575810709.post-55866893818607098232011-04-09T21:36:00.000-04:002011-04-09T21:36:51.877-04:00man of sorrowsWith so many problems plaguing today's world, it's no wonder people are looking for something to heal the pain. Some turn to relationships, expecting their close friends and family to settle the longings of the heart. Others turn to money, hoping their smart investments will somehow save them from financial problems.<br />
Shopping. Drugs. Jobs. There's a number of different ways humans will try to deal with everyday struggles. But no matter how many things we try, the things of this world just can't save us from the worry and dissatisfaction of our souls. So many people jump from thing to thing, hopelessly searching for true joy and peace to their lives.<br />
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In this week's hymn, we hear a triumphant cry, announcing a Savior like no other. In the verses of "Hallelujah, What a Savior," we find a poetic reminder of Christ's death; a sacrifice that truly overcame the troubles of this world. For a hurting world, that's good news indeed!<br />
In this coming week, take a moment to think and pray for_________and others who are still looking for salvation in the things of this world. When they look to you, will they see the way to true salvation? Will they see a lifestyle that joyfully celebrates Jesus, or will they see a person whose faith seems to make no impact on real life?<br />
As we hear this week's hymn, let's put that "Hallelujah" into our everyday lives, so that others will notice the difference in our lives. And then, when they ask us where we find such joy, we can tell them about Jesus, the Savior who always gives us a reason to sing.<br />
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This great hymn is also introduced with portrayal of Martin Luther preaching on Isaiah 53 and his favorite topic, "God's Grace for Us!"<br />
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For the Son of God, who came<br />
Ruined sinners to reclaim.<br />
Hallelujah! What a Savior!</div><div class="first"><br />
</div><div class="first">Bearing shame and scoffing rude,<br />
In my place condemned He stood;<br />
Sealed my pardon with His blood.<br />
Hallelujah! What a Savior!</div><div class="first"><br />
</div><div class="first">Guilty, vile, and helpless we;<br />
Spotless Lamb of God was He;<br />
“Full atonement!” can it be?<br />
Hallelujah! What a Savior!</div><div class="first"><br />
</div><div class="first">Lifted up was He to die;<br />
“It is finished!” was His cry;<br />
Now in Heav’n exalted high.<br />
Hallelujah! What a Savior!</div><div class="verses"><br />
</div><div class="verses">When He comes, our glorious King,<br />
All His ransomed home to bring,<br />
Then anew His song we’ll sing:<br />
Hallelujah! What a Savior!</div><br />
Preparing us for eternity, when all nations will praise God together, the word "Hallelujah" provides a similar expression of praise in all languages. "Hallelujah, What a Savior" uses the word to tie the cross with the triumph of the risen and reigning Lord. <br />
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The first four verses tell the crucifixion story, that Jesus, the "spotless Lamb of God," stood condemned in our place. He took on our sins for us, the "guilty, vile and helpless." Completing each short stanza, we cry out with overwhelming praise "Hallelujah, what a Savior!" <br />
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In the last public meeting before his untimely death, Philip Bliss the hymn's composer conducted a service at the Michigan State Prison for 800 inmates. Many of them wept in true repentance as he spoke of Jesus' redeeming death and sang the verses of "Hallelujah, What a Savior!"<br />
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