God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
For the Holy Spirit is prayer's great Helper. We are incapable of ourselves to translate our real needs into prayer. The Holy Spirit does this for us. We cannot ask as we ought. The Holy Spirit does this for us. It is possible for unaided man to ask what is for our ill. The Holy Spirit can check this. No weak or trembling hand dare put in motion any mighty force. Can I – dare I – move the Hand that moves the universe? No! Unless the Holy Spirit has control of me.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT:
0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">How fast are we approaching to the end of another year? As always many of usare getting ready to testify, Though I was unfaithful, the Lord has been faithful ... I could not do all that I wanted to do. I will do this year .. We lament that we had no time!
<FONT face="Times New
Roman">If we carefully notice all what we did and the way we used time, we will discover that we had enough time for that which was in our heart. We found time for whatever we counted as important and left undone that which was not so essential in our calculation.
That means the problem is not that we lack time but wrong priority and procrastination. We postpone many things hoping
that we will do better later. But the fact is later never comes! Finally we end up in doing something without much success.
President Abdul Kalam often recites the words of Kabirdas, kal kare so aj kar, ag kare so ab, pal mem parlay hogi, phir karega kab?Do today, that which to be done tomorrow, do now that which to be done today.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Solomon has narrated the passing time in a very interesting way. There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot Eccles. 3:18.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none;
TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Yes for every action there is an appointed time, occasion.If we fail in todays responsibility we can not fill it up with out sacrificing another important duty!Accumulated assignments will only eat up our effectiveness. It is by making use of the presently available opportunity we can grow and succeed in our life.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt:
1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Our Lord was conscious of His time. Jn.2:4; 9:4; 17:1 etc. He did everything well in time.According to Paul, wise use of time is redeeming it- buying back. Eph.5:16
One Chinese proverb is thought provoking, opportunity is like eggs, one at a time. Let seize every opportunity and do our duty now itself. In seeking the Lord, serving Him and ministering to the saints waste no opportunity.Prioritize the
responsibilities; give importance to that which has eternal repercussions. Today is our day, tomorrow will be too late.Know His will and do that now.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> NTK
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in
0in 0pt">Notes on Tabernacle
THE CHURCH, UNIVERSAL AND LOCAL
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">We have seen that the Tabernacle represents the Church, but the Church is seen in two aspects in the New Testament, that is UNIVERSAL, & LOCAL. The Church universal embraces every born again believer, on the earth, who when they were saved, were baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, the Church. (1Cor.12;13, EPH. 4;4.)
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none;
PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">That is the Church universal Though there is but one universal Church, there are many local Churches, and each if properly constituted, is to be a local expression of the one universal Church.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in;
BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The local Church is a company of believers who are gathered out of the world, or the community, and gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus alone, (Mat. 18;20)
Each Church is independent of the other, but because led and formed by the Holy Spirit, and governed by the word of God, there will be a great similarity between
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">them. There will also be a sweet, but unorganised fellowship between the local Churches in any given area, and between the Churches in different countries. All this is accomplished without any formal hierarchy, there being only local government of each assembly by a plurality of elders, who are placed over the local Church by the
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid
windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Holy Spirit as shepherds, but recognised by the local Church as such.
The Tabernacle embraces both
concepts, but principally , and practically is seen in the life and practice of the local Church.
<FONT
size=3> C.E.WIGG,TASMANIA.
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">
Anecdote:
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt
4.0pt">Tale of the two goats.Two rugged mountain goats met on a narrow pathway.On oneside was a chasm 1000 feet deep ; on the other , a steep cliff rising straightup . There was no room to turn around , and the goats could not back up without falling .What would they do. ?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
Finally, instead of fighting for the right to pass, one of the goats knelt down and became as flat as possible.The other goat then walked over him, and they both proceeded safely.
<div class=MsoBodyText style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in;
BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Christ did the same.He saw us trapped between our sin and Gods righteousness with no way to helpourselves.Ph. 2.58.allowed us to walk over Him.
<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
1"> Christians need to follow His example.1 Pet.2. 21.Be humble enough to let others walk over us if need be.(cp. 1 Pet.2.1825)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Past AfflictionIsrael looks back to a history of affliction and grief imposed by their enemies from earliest times, verse1. In present trials they remember past sufferings and draw comfort from the fact they already survived generations of national persecution, Yet they [their enemies] have not prevailed against me, verse 2. They liken their afflictions to a pitiless plough scoring its long furrows across the back of their agony, verse 3. This was written more than three thousand years ago, but foreshadows Israels tortured cry
during the time of Jacobs trouble Jere. 30.7 as they await national liberation by the Hand of the righteous LORD delivering them from the cords of the wicked, verse 4. This will be fulfilled at the Second Advent.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Prophetic Sufferings Yet through the corporate voice of a tormented nation rises the prophetic cry of Another. It is the sob of Messiah Himself as He suffers beneath the terrible Roman flagellum (a whip of leather thongs with slivers of bone and metal tied to them) as they made long their furrows across His lacerated back. When the wicked and unrighteous command of Pilate, John 19.1, had been carried out, the bloody weals across Christs bared back resembled the long furrows of a ploughed field. Terrible imagery! No matter what Israel had suffered, it could not be compared to the unparalleled agony of Israels Messiah. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, Wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Lam. 1.12
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Present Worship O what glorious wounds they are to the redeemed of the Lord today. What grateful clouds of incense-worship ascends to our God and Father when we call to remembrance those blessed sin-healing stripes, 1 Pet. 2.24. Isaiah too prophesied of these same redemptive sufferings when he wrote, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed Isa. 53.5.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none;
PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Dear suffering Lamb! Thy bleeding wounds, With cords of love divine, Have drawn our willing hearts to Thee, And linked our life with Thine.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Michael Brown
<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
1"> The nun gave a long talk on sin, prayer and forgiveness. When she had finished the lesson, she asked little Mary , What do we have to do before we ask the Lord to forgive us ?.Sin , replied Mary confidently.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing but I couldnt give it up because by that time I was too famous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Robert Bencley
<div class=MsoBodyText style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;
mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt">To ponder over:
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long
the world will not see me any more but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.Jn.14:18,19
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT:
0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">How fast are we approaching to the end of another year? As always many of usare getting ready to testify, Though I was unfaithful, the Lord has been faithful ... I could not do all that I wanted to do. I will do this year .. We lament that we had no time!
<FONT face="Times New
Roman">If we carefully notice all what we did and the way we used time, we will discover that we had enough time for that which was in our heart. We found time for whatever we counted as important and left undone that which was not so essential in our calculation.
That means the problem is not that we lack time but wrong priority and procrastination. We postpone many things hoping
that we will do better later. But the fact is later never comes! Finally we end up in doing something without much success.
President Abdul Kalam often recites the words of Kabirdas, kal kare so aj kar, ag kare so ab, pal mem parlay hogi, phir karega kab?Do today, that which to be done tomorrow, do now that which to be done today.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Solomon has narrated the passing time in a very interesting way. There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot Eccles. 3:18.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none;
TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Yes for every action there is an appointed time, occasion.If we fail in todays responsibility we can not fill it up with out sacrificing another important duty!Accumulated assignments will only eat up our effectiveness. It is by making use of the presently available opportunity we can grow and succeed in our life.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt:
1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Our Lord was conscious of His time. Jn.2:4; 9:4; 17:1 etc. He did everything well in time.According to Paul, wise use of time is redeeming it- buying back. Eph.5:16
One Chinese proverb is thought provoking, opportunity is like eggs, one at a time. Let seize every opportunity and do our duty now itself. In seeking the Lord, serving Him and ministering to the saints waste no opportunity.Prioritize the
responsibilities; give importance to that which has eternal repercussions. Today is our day, tomorrow will be too late.Know His will and do that now.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> NTK
<div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in
0in 0pt">Notes on Tabernacle
THE CHURCH, UNIVERSAL AND LOCAL
<div
class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">We have seen that the Tabernacle represents the Church, but the Church is seen in two aspects in the New Testament, that is UNIVERSAL, & LOCAL. The Church universal embraces every born again believer, on the earth, who when they were saved, were baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, the Church. (1Cor.12;13, EPH. 4;4.)
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none;
PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">That is the Church universal Though there is but one universal Church, there are many local Churches, and each if properly constituted, is to be a local expression of the one universal Church.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in;
BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">The local Church is a company of believers who are gathered out of the world, or the community, and gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus alone, (Mat. 18;20)
Each Church is independent of the other, but because led and formed by the Holy Spirit, and governed by the word of God, there will be a great similarity between
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">them. There will also be a sweet, but unorganised fellowship between the local Churches in any given area, and between the Churches in different countries. All this is accomplished without any formal hierarchy, there being only local government of each assembly by a plurality of elders, who are placed over the local Church by the
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid
windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Holy Spirit as shepherds, but recognised by the local Church as such.
The Tabernacle embraces both
concepts, but principally , and practically is seen in the life and practice of the local Church.
<FONT
size=3> C.E.WIGG,TASMANIA.
<FONT
face="Times New Roman">
Anecdote:
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt
4.0pt">Tale of the two goats.Two rugged mountain goats met on a narrow pathway.On oneside was a chasm 1000 feet deep ; on the other , a steep cliff rising straightup . There was no room to turn around , and the goats could not back up without falling .What would they do. ?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
Finally, instead of fighting for the right to pass, one of the goats knelt down and became as flat as possible.The other goat then walked over him, and they both proceeded safely.
<div class=MsoBodyText style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in;
BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Christ did the same.He saw us trapped between our sin and Gods righteousness with no way to helpourselves.Ph. 2.58.allowed us to walk over Him.
<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
1"> Christians need to follow His example.1 Pet.2. 21.Be humble enough to let others walk over us if need be.(cp. 1 Pet.2.1825)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Past AfflictionIsrael looks back to a history of affliction and grief imposed by their enemies from earliest times, verse1. In present trials they remember past sufferings and draw comfort from the fact they already survived generations of national persecution, Yet they [their enemies] have not prevailed against me, verse 2. They liken their afflictions to a pitiless plough scoring its long furrows across the back of their agony, verse 3. This was written more than three thousand years ago, but foreshadows Israels tortured cry
during the time of Jacobs trouble Jere. 30.7 as they await national liberation by the Hand of the righteous LORD delivering them from the cords of the wicked, verse 4. This will be fulfilled at the Second Advent.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt:
solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Prophetic Sufferings Yet through the corporate voice of a tormented nation rises the prophetic cry of Another. It is the sob of Messiah Himself as He suffers beneath the terrible Roman flagellum (a whip of leather thongs with slivers of bone and metal tied to them) as they made long their furrows across His lacerated back. When the wicked and unrighteous command of Pilate, John 19.1, had been carried out, the bloody weals across Christs bared back resembled the long furrows of a ploughed field. Terrible imagery! No matter what Israel had suffered, it could not be compared to the unparalleled agony of Israels Messiah. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, Wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. Lam. 1.12
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">Present Worship O what glorious wounds they are to the redeemed of the Lord today. What grateful clouds of incense-worship ascends to our God and Father when we call to remembrance those blessed sin-healing stripes, 1 Pet. 2.24. Isaiah too prophesied of these same redemptive sufferings when he wrote, But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed Isa. 53.5.
<div class=MsoNormal style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none;
PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">
Dear suffering Lamb! Thy bleeding wounds, With cords of love divine, Have drawn our willing hearts to Thee, And linked our life with Thine.
<div class=MsoNormal
style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Michael Brown
<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:
1"> The nun gave a long talk on sin, prayer and forgiveness. When she had finished the lesson, she asked little Mary , What do we have to do before we ask the Lord to forgive us ?.Sin , replied Mary confidently.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing but I couldnt give it up because by that time I was too famous.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> Robert Bencley
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mso-border-bottom-alt: double windowtext 2.25pt">To ponder over:
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long
the world will not see me any more but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.Jn.14:18,19
