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A Sign to be Spoken Against

March 14th, 2012 Ben Comments off

And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;

Luke 2:34

For His name was Immanuel, and He was God. He was with us. And He was here.

There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be disclosed.

For, it pleased the Father to crush Him, and by His stripes we were healed.

This man, this all bright one, this delight of all our heart, it is He that set the nations, it is He that formed the Earth.

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

Matthew 16:4

No sign given but the sign of the prophet Jonah, for man demanded a sign, but God gave them his heart. His prize, His first, His possession, His own, He gave, and in giving, gave all.

The Spiritual Man #4 – The Old And the New

March 7th, 2012 Ben Comments off

In one meeting, upon a riverbank, Old met New. One was fulfilled, and one was just beginning. He must increase, and I must. He must become greater, and I must become less.

For, the law and the prophets were until John, and since that time, men were forcefully entering the Kingdom with violence (Luke 16:16).

The old system was to be replaced, and it was the New that mattered now. The law was given through Moses, Grace and Truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).

Jeremiah the prophet wrote this oracle:

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Jeremiah 31:31-34