Msg #1329 See The Depth and Believe
What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
Article created: 2013/01/29
Msg #1329 See The Depth and Believe
What The Bible Says
Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice
A pool in Mammoth Cave illustrates the crystal, clear, cave water. As our group stared through this crystal pool and saw the colorful formations on the bottom, our guide dropped in a penny. It flipped and swirled as it sank and sank, getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared altogether. The pool we stared through was fifty feet deep! The Gospel of John is like that pool. It is crystal clear and you can see all the way to the bottom, but when you research, you find there is great depth in this book. Nothing manifests that truth like chapter ten. It contains a parable, and Jesus said, “They understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.” Then he drops in a penny, as it were. He claimed to be the Only Door, fulfilling Psalm 22. He claimed to be the Good Shepherd, fulfilling Psalm 23. But when he claimed to be the fulfillment of Psalm 24 he was meet with disbelief. He is still ridiculed in disbelief today. When he said he was the Good Shepherd of Psalm 23 he claimed to be Jehovah God. When he said he had power to lay down his life for his sheep, and then he had power to take it up again, he claimed the same more emphatically. Those not of his fold, who would not hear his voice, called him a liar and a lunatic. Those who say of Jesus the Christ, “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want,” they hear his voice, see clear to the bottom of the pool, and inherit His eternal life. Liar, Lunatic, or LORD, each must choose, “For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
An Essay for week #29 Sun, Jul 21, 13
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