Month: April 2011

Passover starts today. I’m not Jewish but a study of this Jewish feast; the conditions under which it was first ordained and its observance through to its fulfillment are a great study to go into.

By now, if you are a regular church go-er, you have all likely heard thematic messages concerning the Passion of the Christ.  For those who don’t know what that is, it is a term to describe the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death.  Being that this last sunday is also known as palm sunday, you probably heard about the events going all way back to a week before the beginning of the Passion. _{Therein lies a fascinating study of the 70 weeks of Daniel from Daniel 9.}

All of this is well and good.  We should remember that Jesus did suffer and pay the penalty for our sins.  At the end, everyone in attendance is probably feeling really down.  However, a thought occurred to me as I listened to the sermon this past sunday.  I had a thought of just chopping down that cross posted at the front of the sanctuary.

If that last statement shocked you, I pray that you continue reading as I explain.

There are many principles applicable to christianity that are also applicable to your dealings in the secular world. One of them is stated above.  Another is a favorite of mine that I shorten to call Acts 17:11.

These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so. (Act 17:11)

This passage is speaking of the Bereans who were told the gospel but didn’t just take what they heard as truth until they could verify it though the scriptures.  They didn’t take a single source and run with it.  They checked the facts.  I suggest you all be like the Bereans particularly with the Bible, but also in your general lives.  We live in an age with the Internet.  While it is a great resource, I am sure a great number of you already know how many lies spread using the same tool.