God's Story Board
This collection of Bible readings (Jeremiah 23:1-6, Psalm 46, Colossians 1:11-20, Luke 23:33-43) puts us in contact with the central truth in the life of faith: Our God brings peace and a new life, but sometimes come to us through adversity. When my grandfather pebble mill Campbell Joe Creek, Washington, burned, lost his life, a decade of sweat equity and all the security put his wife and 12 children. To support his family, his grandfather hademployment saw filer in a neighboring factory, whose owner was suspected of having set fire to his mill. Many years later my grandfather was still extremely poor. But when he died on his deathbed was his wife of 60 years, their 12 children, and behind them about 30 grandchildren had gathered in the room. The grandfather went to eternity, as quietly as he lived in a God and his family.
These reading the Bible all the points that we mysterious crown of adversity and peace, which involvesall our lives. The prophet Jeremiah lived at the end of 7th century and early 6th century BC, when violent end when the armies of Babylon destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC, and sent one thousand Israelites in forced exile from their homeland. Before the fall of Jerusalem, Jeremiah spent his life asking the leaders of their people to live a right life and ruled the country for justice. For his efforts, and Jeremiah, to reverse many of the attacks on his life.passage from Jeremiah (23:1-6) is one of the warnings that Jeremiah addressed to the leaders. But more importantly, it looks beyond the coming destruction of Jerusalem in peace and new life, when God "to choose a righteous descendant of King David … He is called the" Lord of our salvation. "( 23: 5, 6B, GNT).
Psalm 46, a song of faith in the power of God to remove our unhappiness on a cosmic scale. "Even if the earth is shaken and mountains aredeep ocean, even if the noise and fury of the sea and the hills are shaken by violence … The Lord of hosts is with us. "(46:2, 3, 7, GNT). If you ever took refuge from the storm or typhoon, you know what the psalmist says about. Ravages when the typhoon that hit Manila and attacked our house, my wife, Mary, and children and found refuge in a corner of the house until the wind died down and the leaves just rain. Suddenly we heardguitar music and singing. As for our window to the neighborhood, which borders on our house, we saw our neighbors sitting on the roof of their huts, drinking water is raging, and praising God with music, guitar and voice. God brought them safely through the storm, which will really shake the earth and caused a drop top.
Colossians 1:11-20 comes from the pen of the Apostle Paul, while Paul was in prison (4:10). In this letter, Paul refers to what scientists call an earlyChristian hymn (1:15-20). Maybe they sing during worship services, the last verse of the hymn sets the standard formulation of our theme: "God of peace by the blood of the Son." (1:20, GNT) Blood of Jesus refers to facts that we know as the Good Friday crucifixion of Jesus. Destined by his captors Roman punishment of a crime and the devastating attack to followers of Jesus, crucifixion is not the opposite. It turned out that a prerequisite for any other event, the resurrection of Jesus.When Jesus is lifted on the cross, do not bring their fans down, as the Romans had expected. Rather, he took them to a new spiritual plane and gave them a share in the eternal life of Jesus.
Luke 23:33-43 speaks of the last hours of Jesus' life, as long as Paul concluded with the words: "God made peace through the blood of the Son." Nailed to the cross, which was sown among the crosses is two criminals, Jesus looked to the Roman soldiers who mocked him andplayed in his clothes. Above his head, the soldiers secured on board with the inscription "This is the King of the Jews". From the point of view of the Board of the Roman view of recorded crimes for which he was killed: it states that the king had to compete with the king that the Romans installed by the Jews (Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee). Over time, however, Jesus' followers understood the true significance of the meeting. The Kingdom of Jesus has nothing to do with the decision of Galilee and Judea, had to deal withbringing the Kingdom of God to us.
This CD is a simple piece of the story Luke tells us everything he knows about God's providence for us: Yes, adversity can wrap around us like a wreath. But if we consider the crown with eyes of faith, we can see what Paul and the early followers of Jesus, along with Jeremiah and the Psalmist discovered a "plate" on the cross gives us life in Christ of God.