Hebrews 7:21-28
“The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
‘You are a priest forever.’”
22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
23 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.
25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost
those who draw near to God through Him
Since he always lives to make intercession for us.
For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
27 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
28 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law,
appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.
Mount of Beatitudes
What I find about Good Friday, holding my heart, in any-and-all-manner of remembrance of our Jesus, is the acute desire to have seen one full day of the ministry of Jesus Himself. I do not want to know of the sufferings of Jesus after making the blind see, Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus), Zaccheaus is loved, Matthew gives Jesus a party to include all the needy thugs, Mary and Martha are loved and comforted by Jesus. Lazarus comes forth to be called a Friend of Jesus for Millenniums.
I don't want to spend a day thinking of Jesus as gone. I don't want Jesus to suffer. But I want to be counted as Righteous in the sight of God as the Gift of Jesus Christ. And in remembering Jesus saying a Sparrow doesn't fall that the Creator of All Things doesn't know and hold as memorable, then I remember again, how I want to see a day of Jesus walking as Truth and Grace. Grace upon Grace. Choosing to live in Beautiful Capernaum.
And I give to you this sermon of a summer day, when today someone I've never met, we spoke on the phone- we thought together the only gift of Pandemic is to remember what we have temporarily lost and never held up as possible, as this Blessing was uncounted.
We Will Reclaim All of What our Gracious Father has Given to us.
He has daily Loaded us with Benefits.
Dr. Ed Robb
The Woodlands United Methodist Church
4th Largest Methodist Church in the United States of America
A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon, November 4, 2018
We find so many references to our events today. Don't miss this one.
We Will Reclaim All of What our Gracious Father has Given to us.
He has DAILY Loaded us with Benefits.
The Sermon Begins 29:00, if you must miss this entire Service blending with us, today.
Isaiah 53
View of the Temple from Golgotha
Earthquake, records in seismic history Good Friday.
The Service includes reading of the Names from the Saints of God passing into His Kingdom. Alive in Heaven.
Isaiah 53
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
Scripture for Today Blogspot always uses English Standard Version. JI Packer, alive today, and born 22 July, 1926. JI Packer went to Oxford and took classes from CS Lewis. He was part of the team assembling the English Standard Version of the Bible. He currently serves as the Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is considered one of the most influential evangelicals in North America. He has been the theologian emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America since its inception in 2009.
When Rev. JI Packer was 89 years old, he was defrocked. Eighty nine years old. Student of CS Lewis. Eighty nine years old. Priest. Ji Packer refused to remove and replace words in the Bible. Revise the Bible to gender neutral terms. Mercy. Blessed to have Freedom of Speech. We are so Blessed to be free. Free to be merciful. Free to worship God as we believe. Free to have ideas. Blessed in Jesus to be Merciful.
John found God to be Love. Love covers a multitude of sins. Blessed are the merciful they shall obtain mercy.
If we learn nothing more in this Pandemic, let us remember how merciful we have behaved.
Let us always remember Mercy.
Let's ask from our Jesus for His Mercy going forth. And remember again how beautiful is the Life God has given to us we almost passed by without realizing all the riches He has really given us.
Abba,
We have been Blessed in so many ways we never even considered the richness of Life.
You have given us Jesus, our Wonderful Jesus.
In the Mercy of God Everlasting, we ask to live again in these Blessings.
Covered in the Love of Jesus Christ, we Bless You we have been Blessed
to Seek You First. To Live Life in Love, Peace and Joy.
You are not a God Who is small. Your Desire is to Save the world in Jesus Christ.
Your Good Creation You Proclaim yesterday, today and tomorrow.
In the Name of Jesus, we ask Your Love cover a multitude of sins. Including not even realizing
the richness You have given us in Abundant Life.
Today we stop to say to You, Thank You for Jesus Christ for ourselves, the ones we Love
and the Hope and Future we say bless those in the generation ahead. In Jesus, Amen.
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