WHERE'S THAT DONKEY
We preachers have been
known to embellish the Word just a bit, adding a pinch of fiction, a
dash of tradition, and maybe even a little exaggeration in our bid to
make Sunday's serving of the Manna a little more appealing to the
ear, and, just maybe, more appetizing to the spiritual palate. I'd
like to share a few examples:
1/ Saul/Paul was breathing
out threatening and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord
Jesus. While on his way to Damascus to arrest more Christians, this
Jesus that Saul was persecuting arrested his mission by shinning a
bright light around him, flinging him from his donkey to the ground,
and introducing Himself to him. A conversation followed. The light
in his eyes, the pain of the fall from his donkey (Oh, the pain of
that fall!) and the voice that no one else heard persuaded Saul to
ask submissively, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
Hear me brothers and
sisters, if God must, He can get your attention the same way He did
Saul's! He can, and will, if necessary, slap you off your Donkey!
(Acts 9:1-9)
Where's that Donkey?
2/ Aaron the high priest
went alone into the Tabernacle once a year to atone for the sins of
Israel as those without, being forbidden to enter, listened intently
for the ringing bells on the hem of his garment. If those bells
ceased their ringing, everyone knew the sacrifice for Israel's year's
worth of sin was insufficient to stay God's wrath, and, Aaron was
dead. However, before his entering the Holiest there had been a rope
tied to Arron's ankle so that, in such case, he could be dragged out.
(Exodus 30:10; Exodus 28:35; Lev 16:16-17)
Where's that rope? And, if
there were a rope, who would be alive to pull on it?
3/ “Come on Brothers and
Sisters and let's praise Him and lift him up. The Bible says in John
12:32 that if we lift Him up and praise Him He will draw all men unto
Himself. Come on, lets lift Him up!!”
See here in John 12:32 'And
I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.'”
Where's that next verse?
John 12:33 “This he said, signifying what death he should die.”
4/ The ground had been
cursed, yet Cain dared bring an offering of its fruit to the Lord.
Did he really think that God would respect a sacrifice other than
that of blood?
Where's Cain's faith?? (Heb
11:4a By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain,”
5/ “I tell you my Brothers
and Sisters, that which God has waiting on the other side for us is
beyond our imagination. He said in 1Cor 2:9 that eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him. You just can't
possibly in any way know the beauty and splendor of all the things He
is going to give us. There is just no way. But we will know when we
get there that it was worth the wait to find out!”
Where's that next verse? 1
Cor 2:10 “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
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