Art as expression – NOT as market campaigns, will still capture our Imaginations
“Three men are at the door…” “Now while Peter wondered within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, the men sent…stood before the gate.. The Spirit said, ‘Behold, … Continue reading BOYS, GIRLS, MEN AND WOMEN AT THE DOOR
There are actually seven Calvary miracles, the greatest and most wonderful, of course, being the resurrection of Christ.
True, Jesus was not yet dead when the Pharisees determined to pay Judas exactly thirty pieces of silver; but then they fully intended to kill him as soon as possible, overlooking the parallel fact that God’s law required the “ox” to be stoned after such an incident!
The person in view, therefore, is the policeman, the legally constituted arm of human government, making the law-enforcement men of cities, states, and nations to be every where as much “ordained of God” as any minister of the gospel.
One could come nearer understanding it if Christ had been betrayed for some big reason, but the things which apparently motivated Judas were extremely small considerations.
Christ was both human and divine, and so is the Bible. The Lord identified himself as one with the Father, and yet he was also the son of the virgin Mary, of the posterity of David and of Abraham. Likewise, the Bible is in fact the word of God; yet, at the same time, it is the writing by men like Isaiah, Moses, Matthew, Luke, and Paul.
Whatever the serpent was, he would appear to have been an UPRIGHT creature and to have been endowed with the gift of speech.
