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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Monday, March 7, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Woe to Unrepentant Cities Bible Verse:Matthew 11:20-24 (ESV) "Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”" Message:
We have been discussing the various tones or voice, or modes of speech, of Christ, and it is important to distinguish this passage from the preceding one. Christ does not rebuke these cities that have rejected Him, expecting they will change; he denounces them and predicts their destruction. The English translation is a little off-tone, for the Greek makes it sound more mournful and less angry.
The tone here is mournful or sorrowful condemnation. God loves us and does not want to see us perish.
When John came to the end of his Gospel, he wrote: “Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” The Gospels only hit a few high points of Jesus’ ministry. Specifically, we have no knowledge of what had occurred in Chorazin and Bethsaida, to earn them special mention. We can speculate that something would have been written if Christ had encountered unusual violence or outrage, so most likely, they simply ignored him.
Tyre and Sidon, on the other hand, were famous for sin. They were ancient Phoenician cities, wealthy centers of early Mediterranean commerce, and they were like port towns everywhere: full of bars, prostitutes, and violence. Isaiah prophesied their devastation. So vehement was his denunciation that he devoted an entire chapter — Isaiah 23 — to them.
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods | Second Commandment
Consider the implications, then, when Jesus says that Chorazin and Bethsaida will suffer more than Tyre and Sidon. The Judean towns surely had nothing approaching the volume of sin in Tyre and Sidon; moreover, they were Jewish and observed the law of Moses (more or less). One must infer that to ignore Christ — not to hear Christ’s word, not to accept him as one’s Savior — is more terrible than to God than adultery and murder.
The capital sin is to do nothing. The difference between heaven and hell can be shown simply by visualizing Christ the Redeemer, looking out over Rio de Janeiro. The living look up and see their Redeemer. The dead look up and see a statue.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, in utter humility I thank you and glorify you, that you might hear the prayer of one so small as myself, amidst the billions of souls among billions of stars in one of billions of galaxies in your universe. Let me go forth in your peace, keeping your Spirit always in my mind; and bless me, I pray, that I might always follow your will and live in the radiance of your blessing.......Amen |
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