Every Word – Making the Cut
He thought he didn’t make it!
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
– Mark 2:17 KJV
He thought he didn’t make it!
“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
– Mark 2:17 KJV
Instead of responding with aggression… “Let him alone, and let him curse…. It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction, and … repay me with good for his cursing this day.” – 2 Samuel 16:11-12 (NKJV)
[John 15:13] “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
[1.Kings 19:14] And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
[2.Chronicles 12:1] It came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
This is what God does. “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.” – Romans 7:6
It was his first thought. “Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil.” – 1 Kings 3:9 (NKJV)