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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Genesis 9-11; Luke 4
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” Luke 4:18-19
This scripture from Isaiah, quoted by Jesus, is so filled with truth and understanding. It gives us some insight to the heart of God. Look who he came for: the oppressed, the broken hearted, the poor, the blind. Did you fall in to one of these categories? Well, Jesus came for you. The phrase, “To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,” well, this phrase would have been understood by the hearers of Jesus on that day. They knew it referred to what was called the Year of Jubilee and a special time in Israel every 50 years where all debt was forgiven and all prisoners were set free. Jesus came to proclaim that that year would be from that time forward. We live in the Year of Jubilee by faith in Jesus Christ. There is one last phrase that Jesus didn’t quote from the original Isaiah text. It is the last statement from that verse that reads “and the day of vengeance of our God” That is because that day will not come until the end and He ushers in that day to the enemies of God. So if the heart of God is for the broken hearted, the poor, the blind and the oppressed, than so is mine.
God Bless You this day,
Pastor Rick
Tomorrow’s Reading: Gen. 12-14; Luke 5
This scripture from Isaiah, quoted by Jesus, is so filled with truth and understanding. It gives us some insight to the heart of God. Look who he came for: the oppressed, the broken hearted, the poor, the blind. Did you fall in to one of these categories? Well, Jesus came for you. The phrase, “To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,” well, this phrase would have been understood by the hearers of Jesus on that day. They knew it referred to what was called the Year of Jubilee and a special time in Israel every 50 years where all debt was forgiven and all prisoners were set free. Jesus came to proclaim that that year would be from that time forward. We live in the Year of Jubilee by faith in Jesus Christ. There is one last phrase that Jesus didn’t quote from the original Isaiah text. It is the last statement from that verse that reads “and the day of vengeance of our God” That is because that day will not come until the end and He ushers in that day to the enemies of God. So if the heart of God is for the broken hearted, the poor, the blind and the oppressed, than so is mine.
God Bless You this day,
Pastor Rick
Tomorrow’s Reading: Gen. 12-14; Luke 5
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Genesis 6-8; Luke 3
The story of the flood or more precisely the story of Noah always makes me feel inadequate. Because I think it would have taken the Lord a lot more than just to tell me a flood is coming, for me to spend the next 100 years of my life building an ark. Noah’s patience, determination, and toughness challenge me. I want things to move faster. I don’t like to have to stay at something too long and I don’t like to be criticized while I’m doing it. All of these things Noah endured over a normal life time for the salvation of a grand total of eight people. I get discouraged if after a single Sunday goes by and there aren’t more than that who say yes to Jesus. I ask myself how far I will go to see a soul saved. What will I endure to help rescue someone from an eternity without God? Today as I was driving off my street I noticed a neighbor who waved to me in my car. As I smiled and waved back my heart was pricked because I have been avoiding this neighbor lately. Not because I don’t particularly like him but because of convenience, he’s a real talker and I know when I stop by for a minute it will be quite a while before I can get away. He’s not interested in spiritual things yet but love would compel me to befriend him more. I know Jesus would and I know Noah would. I don’t want to go to heaven and not see my neighbor there, it would break my heart. I plan on spending more time loving this man this next year and maybe you can join me in praying for him. Is there someone who needs Jesus that God has put in your life? How about we build an Ark?
Pastor Rick
Pastor Rick
Friday, January 1, 2010
Genesis 3-5 & Luke 2
I think my favorite verse in this section is Genesis 3:24 “And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” It doesn’t say much other than Enoch walked with God. I enjoy going for a walk around our neighborhood with my wife. You don’t just walk but you talk and you share life. That is what Enoch and God are doing, they are sharing life. This was in the heart of God from the beginning. God takes no pleasure in religious ceremonialism or tradition for tradition sake. What pleases God is going for a walk. Enoch walked his way right into the eternal presence of the Lord. I think this must have been the most natural thing for Enoch. He’s in conversation with the Lord and I like to think he was so caught up in conversation with God that when he finally looked around and Enoch said, “Where are we?” Maybe the Lord said, “Why don’t you just stay?” I don’t know if that is exactly what happened but I know I want to have more times with God this next year where I lose myself in fellowship with Him.
Pastor Rick
Pastor Rick
Gen. 1,2 & Luke 1
These first 3 chapters of Genesis set the stage for the entire Bible. These chapters answer many of the questions people have about life on planet earth. It goes like this: God creates the earth, man corrupts the earth with sin, God promises to redeem the earth.
It starts with God, who creates it all. It is said if you can believe the first verse you can believe the rest of the Bible. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Don’t get hung up on the creation particulars. You can believe every word in the creation story but the creation story doesn’t give us the details. It is a summary of creation. There are several theories about the details.
Literal 7 day creation between 7 to 10 thousand years ago. This view says the sciences have it all wrong. Some believe that the speed of light has changed and what looks like a 14 billion year universe is not what it appears. It’s the literal 7 day creation theory.
The day age theory. Is the view that since there was no such thing as a 24 hour day until the fourth day of creation at the formation of the Sun and moon. So the days are actually time periods like we would say in my day or in Noah’s day. These time periods could have been millions of years.
The age theory believes God created the world in 7 days but he built age in the creation. It goes something like this. When God created Adam and Eve he didn’t create them as an embryo but as an adult so there is age in the creation. The age old question did Adam have a belly button. Did the trees created have rings in their trunk. Did the light of stars millions of light years away instantly appear even though it would have taken millions of years to reach earth. This view believes God simply created age in the creation.
The Gap theory has been a view many have taken. The gap view asserts that there is a time gap between the first part of Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The idea is that when the scripture says 1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. From this point the idea is there is a time gap from the original creation to the fall of Satan and the earth becomes fallen without form and void.
2 The earth was without form, and void;”
and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
The point being don’t let the real message be confused by the critics. Something even science is starting to admit. In the beginning God.
When Adam and Eve fell all of creation suffered. Sin entered the world through the human race. I know Satan had already sinned but God had given authority over creation to Adam and when Adam submitted his authority to Satan, he gave authority to the kingdom of darkness, and the curse came. But God in the same breath that he pronounced the curse also pronounced the promise of redemption.
The redemption promise is summarized in chapter 3 verse 15 while pronouncing the curse on the serpent “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Jesus did crush the serpents head on the Cross fulfilling the promise.
Pastor Rick
It starts with God, who creates it all. It is said if you can believe the first verse you can believe the rest of the Bible. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Don’t get hung up on the creation particulars. You can believe every word in the creation story but the creation story doesn’t give us the details. It is a summary of creation. There are several theories about the details.
Literal 7 day creation between 7 to 10 thousand years ago. This view says the sciences have it all wrong. Some believe that the speed of light has changed and what looks like a 14 billion year universe is not what it appears. It’s the literal 7 day creation theory.
The day age theory. Is the view that since there was no such thing as a 24 hour day until the fourth day of creation at the formation of the Sun and moon. So the days are actually time periods like we would say in my day or in Noah’s day. These time periods could have been millions of years.
The age theory believes God created the world in 7 days but he built age in the creation. It goes something like this. When God created Adam and Eve he didn’t create them as an embryo but as an adult so there is age in the creation. The age old question did Adam have a belly button. Did the trees created have rings in their trunk. Did the light of stars millions of light years away instantly appear even though it would have taken millions of years to reach earth. This view believes God simply created age in the creation.
The Gap theory has been a view many have taken. The gap view asserts that there is a time gap between the first part of Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The idea is that when the scripture says 1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. From this point the idea is there is a time gap from the original creation to the fall of Satan and the earth becomes fallen without form and void.
2 The earth was without form, and void;”
and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
The point being don’t let the real message be confused by the critics. Something even science is starting to admit. In the beginning God.
When Adam and Eve fell all of creation suffered. Sin entered the world through the human race. I know Satan had already sinned but God had given authority over creation to Adam and when Adam submitted his authority to Satan, he gave authority to the kingdom of darkness, and the curse came. But God in the same breath that he pronounced the curse also pronounced the promise of redemption.
The redemption promise is summarized in chapter 3 verse 15 while pronouncing the curse on the serpent “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” Jesus did crush the serpents head on the Cross fulfilling the promise.
Pastor Rick
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