PASTOR'S CORNER

  Luke 19:37-44 "Dead man walking" is a phrase traditionally used in prisons to identify a condemned prisoner being led to execution. It now commonly acts as an expression for anyone facing unavoidable doom, such as a, likely, impending job loss or a failed, desperate situation.  As Jesus enters the city for the last time, He comes prepared to die on a cross for the sinfulness of mankind, though they are ignorant to the reality that Jesus is a “Dead man walking”   This special Sunday is a historical event of gospel prophecy fulfilled.  All four of the Gospels contend that this incident was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.  The gospel writers affirm what was said by the prophet Zechariah, who was among the fifty thousand, or so Jews, who returned in the first wave of Hebrews, who were released from Babylonian captivity in 536 B.C.  He wrote about this event five centuries before the birth of Jesus in 520 B.C.  The prophet’s main empha...

  Proverbs 25:1-2   Every Christian should be doing this every day.  Seeking to know the glory of God.  All of Scripture points to  the Glory of God.  “Glory” by definition is all that God is , in all of His Character, Deity, in all of His Person, in all of His Attributes.  As Paul wrote, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory , may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him,” Eph 1:17.  The Bible describes "the Father of glory" as the source from whom all Divine splendor and perfection proceed in their manifestation, and to whom they belong.   Martin Llyod Jones said this about Paul’s prayer, “Paul, in just one verse, notes in his prayer that he is praying to the God with whom he has a covenant relationship. The God of the incarnate Son. Not an unknown god, but the God revealed through the Lord Jesus Christ. This God is the source of all glory . He is the glorious One, who gives gl...