The Gate

“…the gate that looketh toward the east…” (Ezekiel 43:1)

 

The gate… I love pictures of this gate.  Have you hears the song that says, “I will meet you in the morning… Just inside the Eastern Gate over there.”?

This gate, near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, is also known as the “Eastern Gate”, or the “Golden Gate”

Sound With Cymbals

“…but Asaph made a sound with cymbals…”

(1 Chronicles 16:5)

 

I love this verse!  I just absolutely love it!

 

It’s kind of like in these long lists of people in the book of 1 Chronicles, in these lists of all the things that these people did – and there are a lot of people and they were doing a lot of things (and I realize that this is now probably a ‘run-on’ sentence)… so everyone was doing everything and all of that “…but Asaph made a sound with cymbals…”

 

KABANG!

 

Narrow is the way

“…narrow is the way,

which leadeth unto life,

and few there be that find it.”

(Matthew 7:13-14)

 

Jesus was telling the truth when He said the way of Salvation is narrow!  To deny it would be to deny how narrow the path through this rock is!

Jesus was also telling the truth when He said that few people find the way of Salvation!  How sad!  So listen to what Jesus is saying, Come unto me,

I love them that love me

“I love them that love me;” - Proverbs 8.17

 

I don’t feel there is much I can add to that phrase.

 

I love them that love me;”

 

Wisdom is speaking in this verse, and personified as a good, kind and caring woman - wisdom says,

 

“I love them that love me;”

 

Obedience of Christ

“…bringing into captivity every thought

to the obedience of Christ;” - 2 Corinthians 2.5

 

Our minds are incredibly powerful.  As people we have the capacity to think, to have initiative, to ponder and question, as well as find answers to our questions.  How we choose to use our mind is something worth our consideration.

 

The verse above begins with, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,”

We all do fade as a leaf

we all do fade as a leaf

Isaiah 64.6

 

It’s true – we all DO fade as a leaf.

 

For My Righteousness

For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land...” - Deuteronomy 9.4 (-6)

 

That sounds pretty good to me!  Basically, “I’ve done the right thing and now God is giving me what I deserve!”  Amen!

 

But that is only part of the verse...

 

To what?

“Christ Jesus came into the world to…”

1 Timothy 1.15

 

To what?

 

“Christ Jesus came into the world to…”  to what?

 

Why did Christ Jesus come into the world?

 

Why did God send His only begotten Son from heaven to us?

 

“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist.

Understanding the Bible

“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,

and gave the sense,

and caused them to understand the reading.”

(Nehemiah 8:8)

 

Caused Them To Understand

“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,

and gave the sense,

and caused them to understand the reading.”

(Nehemiah 8:8)

 

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