Luke 13:31-35 ~ (Today's New International Version)
31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, "Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you."
32 He replied, "Go tell that fox, 'I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.' 33 In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!
34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'
For me, this is exactly why Christmas is so important, the most important blessing in life to Christians. When God chose to live with us and sent His innocent Son to us, He knew about the flaws in all of us. He longs to gather us to Him. And He does so by giving us His Son.
We have all known the sceptical, the half believer. Even Abraham wondered and laughed at God. God would gather all of us to Him.
Nicodemus wanted to know about salvation and went to Jesus to ask, Jesus said:
John 3:16,17
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.31 At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, "Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you."
32 He replied, "Go tell that fox, 'I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.' 33 In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!
34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 35 Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'
For me, this is exactly why Christmas is so important, the most important blessing in life to Christians. When God chose to live with us and sent His innocent Son to us, He knew about the flaws in all of us. He longs to gather us to Him. And He does so by giving us His Son.
We have all known the sceptical, the half believer. Even Abraham wondered and laughed at God. God would gather all of us to Him.
Nicodemus wanted to know about salvation and went to Jesus to ask, Jesus said:
John 3:16,17
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