#soundbites
#sense
Luke
9 - KJV
20
¶ He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The
Christ of God.
21
¶ And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
22
Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders
and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Please
note an important lesson here.
The
Lord Jesus Christ asked them a momentous question;
Apostle
Peter gave an answer with an impressive soundbite;
Christ
wasn't impressed; He wanted to make sure the disciples got the SENSE.
The
Lord knew the erroneous notion entertained by the disciples concerning the
Christ of God; they were expecting a political and militaristic messiah who
would deliver their nation Israel from the mighty Roman conqueror and oppressor.
The
Lord's antithetical answer destroyed their cherished fable; the Christ of God
will be rejected by the whole religious establishment; instead, He will be
delivered into the Roman's hand, and be eliminated.
Is
that the Christ of God you are expecting? Are you disappointed to learn the
truth now? Are you ashamed of such a Christ of God?
Luke
9:26
"For
whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man
be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of
the holy angels."
Nehemiah
8:8
"So
they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the SENSE and
caused them to understand the reading."
To
the question "How are you saved?" - all, Calvinists and their close
cousins alike, will instantly blurt out heartily, "we are saved by God's
grace alone - we are sola gracians. Hallelujah."
What
an impressive soundbyte!
Can
you give them the SENSE?
Take
a look here:
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2019/07/for-by-grace-are-ye-saved-through-faith.html
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Bill
Amen!
He is the Christ of GOD, not the Christ men have concocted in their own minds
to suit their purpose.
Reggie
I
just got a better definition of what a sound bite is by reading this… 😊