March 13, 2004
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The Problem
Personally I’ve never heard the question asked out loud but I have asked it of myself. I would find myself looking at scriptures and from an early age the question that was at the forefront of my mind was ?Why??
Not the ?why?? of life or the ?why?? of pain (although these questions did come up). But Why the death of Jesus? Why did He have to suffer and get crucified?
Randy Amos
Chronicle number one of God?s gospel dealt with the great
problem man has before God. It showed the doctrine of condemnation
because of sin. Chronicle number two dealt with God?s Savior.
The Savior is not a philosophy or a religious program but a unique
Person: the son of God and the son of man, Jesus the Lord.
This third chronicle looks at the performance required for
one?s sin that is satisfactory to God the Father. The ethics,
teachings, miracles, moral values, example and popularity of
the Lord Jesus are powerless apart from His performance for sin.
His Person apart from His right performance for sin saves no
one.
Nobody’s Perfect.
We live in the age of mediocrity. No longer are there absolutes, there are only opinions. No longer are there standards, there are individual convictions. Few have truly decided to understand that there are no shades of gray. In the perfect brightness of the Lord our God there is black and light. Nowhere in the Bible does it speak of reproving the works of grayness and nowhere does it mention living in the gray.
Recently, a friend asked me when the 7 Feasts occured in the Jewish
Calendar. The question came up because we were taking a look at the Day
of Pentecost and how long Christ was on Earth. We’ve both been in
enough meetings where we knew that 50 days after the Passover was the
Day of Pentacost….but what did that mean? It meant we had assimilated
information without verifying the facts.
Thus began the hunt and of course we sought the Bible: