Post by Les Brewer on Feb 8, 2012 13:54:55 GMT
John Wolf
Good day to all,and God bless you.
Hebrews 12:3,"For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls."
Our hostility towards our Saviour is what put Him on the cross.Dear sir,dear lady,think not within yourselves that you could never have done to Jesus what they did to Him those many years ago!Consider Him!Here we have the King of Righteousness,the King of Glory from all of eternity past til' all of eternity future,Who holds the earth in the hollow of His hand,telling us to consider Him.This implys that we are to consider the actual price it cost to redeem a fallen,sinful,self-willed,self-centered,self-righteous race of people.
How many of us have ever stopped to consider this?:
1.) He knows all things,everything.Your rising up and your laying down.Your good and your bad.Your right and your wrong.He knows the outcome before the onset.The past,present and future.He is Omniscient.
2.) He holds all power.Nothing is to hard for God,neither is anything impossible for God.He created all things by the Word of His power.He's Omnipotent.
3.) He is, at any given time,in all places at once.He's inescapable.You can not hide from Him,nor can you outrun Him.Before you leave to travel down the path of any direction,He is already there waiting on you.You can't outlive Him and you can't live without Him.He's Omnipresent.
4.) He knew how He would be treated before He created anything.
5.) He knew,before creating anything,that He also had to make the tree we would hang Him on.
6.) He knew the eternal destiny of every soul hung in the balance between Heaven and Hell,and while owing no man anything,chose to become one of us,in order to purchase us back from the auction block of sin.
7.) He knew what He was facing when he came down to the Earth.The rejection,scorn,ridicule,the cruel mockery,the taunts,the rage of mankind,the beating,the hatred,the awfulness of sin and what it has done to His creation,the cross.
8.) He also knew the blessedness we would experience and joy we would have by accepting Him.
9.) He knew "that for the joy that was set before Him,He endured the cross,despising the shame,and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." in order that we too might be called the sons and daughters of God.
10.) Yes,child of God,consider this Jesus, and all He was willing to go through,to redeem us back to His Father.This,my friends,is true love.Not as the world loves,with selfish motives and greed,but,pure, unadulterated,holy,righteous love.
Yes my friends,when we begin to consider these things,our life may just take on new perspective as to how we might order our lives and live them.Consider Him in all that you do,think and say.....In Christ,JW....
Good day to all,and God bless you.
Hebrews 12:3,"For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself,lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls."
Our hostility towards our Saviour is what put Him on the cross.Dear sir,dear lady,think not within yourselves that you could never have done to Jesus what they did to Him those many years ago!Consider Him!Here we have the King of Righteousness,the King of Glory from all of eternity past til' all of eternity future,Who holds the earth in the hollow of His hand,telling us to consider Him.This implys that we are to consider the actual price it cost to redeem a fallen,sinful,self-willed,self-centered,self-righteous race of people.
How many of us have ever stopped to consider this?:
1.) He knows all things,everything.Your rising up and your laying down.Your good and your bad.Your right and your wrong.He knows the outcome before the onset.The past,present and future.He is Omniscient.
2.) He holds all power.Nothing is to hard for God,neither is anything impossible for God.He created all things by the Word of His power.He's Omnipotent.
3.) He is, at any given time,in all places at once.He's inescapable.You can not hide from Him,nor can you outrun Him.Before you leave to travel down the path of any direction,He is already there waiting on you.You can't outlive Him and you can't live without Him.He's Omnipresent.
4.) He knew how He would be treated before He created anything.
5.) He knew,before creating anything,that He also had to make the tree we would hang Him on.
6.) He knew the eternal destiny of every soul hung in the balance between Heaven and Hell,and while owing no man anything,chose to become one of us,in order to purchase us back from the auction block of sin.
7.) He knew what He was facing when he came down to the Earth.The rejection,scorn,ridicule,the cruel mockery,the taunts,the rage of mankind,the beating,the hatred,the awfulness of sin and what it has done to His creation,the cross.
8.) He also knew the blessedness we would experience and joy we would have by accepting Him.
9.) He knew "that for the joy that was set before Him,He endured the cross,despising the shame,and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." in order that we too might be called the sons and daughters of God.
10.) Yes,child of God,consider this Jesus, and all He was willing to go through,to redeem us back to His Father.This,my friends,is true love.Not as the world loves,with selfish motives and greed,but,pure, unadulterated,holy,righteous love.
Yes my friends,when we begin to consider these things,our life may just take on new perspective as to how we might order our lives and live them.Consider Him in all that you do,think and say.....In Christ,JW....
