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In this passage Barabbas name is mentioned four times. Jesus name three times. Barabbas mentioned more than Jesus. The world wanted Barabbas more than Christ. Is it that way today? Absolutely.

The Three Stooges were in one of the funniest short movies ever made in 1936 when they did a comedy about a court room as the judge kept pleading for “order in the court” the stooges kept the court in chaos and disorder just by being themselves. We know that God’s Creation is one of order, sense, predictability and repeatability. Chaos did not exist in God’s original Creation. Sin has brought Chaos and confusion and deception. Man descends into chaos when he is in charge. Just look at our world today. Covid Chaos. Sexual chaos. War chaos. Power chaos. There is disorder in the court of the worlds system today

The Lord is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. God does have physical attributes. He does see. He does speak. He does hear. He does reach down to us. He wants us to walk with Him. He holds us. He leads us to where He wants us to go. So In todays passage we see his eyes are upon us and His face is against the wicked and that should make us happy

Many millions have followed Jesus since He walked on this earth. Most people believe in Jesus. Many people go to church and worship Him but only a few follow Him every day. This is the nature of people. Fear, doubt, ignorance, selfish pride, and love of this world and it’s pleasures keep people from fulling committing their lives to Jesus. But in this passage we see where lots of people followed Jesus for many reasons.

Song of Solomon is part of the poetry section of the Old Testament. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song Of Solomon. It describes the love between the Shulamite woman and her man. We are the bride of Christ. This book of Solomon is about the love of Christ for His church in my opinion. And God’s love for Israel. The church is married to Christ and Israel is married to God. The Lord yearns to bring us into His presence

Very rarely do people agree on everything. I can’t really think of one thing. People are different with different likes and desires. God made us like that. God didn’t want cookie cutter people. He didn’t want robots. He created people in His image which means we think for ourselves, we are self aware, that is we have plans, we love, we like, we have a will and desires for self fulfilment. Hopefully all in the perameters of seeking God’s guidance for our lives. We have limits and those limits are things that God has deemed wicked and harmful to ourselves and others. Even though we have the free will to do those things, God will limit them in order to keep us from usurping His will. So…even though we don’t agree on everything there are three things every human that has ever lived and will live will do and be agreeable on it and be glad to do it well maybe some not so glad…..

Remember last year the world closed their churches for Resurrection Day. But not today! Lots of action at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Heaven comes down and Jesus goes up, the world shakes and quakes, people pass out for fear and people are shocked. The resurrection was not a quite little moment. There was a lot of action. Let’s look at it.

Most people hate change. I think there is a reason for that. Our Heavenly Father never changes. and we are made in His image. So, I think deep down inside we like things to remain the same as He does. Why does God never change? Because He is perfect in every way. Since we are not perfect we are always pursuing perfection, satisfaction and completeness and we change all the time in that pursuit. Some change is good and necessary some change is very harmful and unnecessary. Aren’t we glad that God will never change! And one day we will be perfect and complete and will have no need to change like our heavenly Father. Why does God not ever, no never need to change one iota!

It’s a terrifying world out there today. We don’t know what disaster is going to come tomorrow but we know who holds tomorrow. We live in a terrifying world if you really think about it. We can’t trust the government. Can’t trust in religion. Can’t trust in science. Can’t trust in education. Can’t trust in the media. Can’t trust in the military. Can’t trust in yourself even. How can we live in such times as these? The Bible tells us how to live in a terrifying time.

The world is full of chaos. I’ve said this many times before. The devil wants to divide. We are the most divided at any time on this planet. We are divided morally. We are divided spiritually. We divided politically. We are divided racially. The devil wants to confuse. We don’t what is right and wrong anymore. The devil wants to cause Chaos. What are all the protest’s about? To cause chaos. We can change our gender at any time. Why? To cause chaos. Why the election laws are changing? To cause Chaos. The devil wants to lie. We don’t know who is telling the truth anymore. But God has told us He cannot lie, His word is truth and His Son is the way and the truth. So, if we want to know the only One who has all of the answers to all of our questions, we need look only to the only one. Jesus Christ!!!

Jesus healed the blind, the sick, the dead and the lame. He always told the healed to do something. To show others their faith in Christ to do what ever He asked them to do in order to be healed. The lame man today was told to take up his bed and walk. And He did! How simple yet profound as we will see….

Job suffered more than any man. He never lost his trust in God. He wavered, he wobbled but in the end Job received double for all that he lost. So God will never leave us nor forsake us and never let us down. In the end God will reward us for our faithfulness and trust in Him. But what is man and why is he so important to God? Man certainly doesn’t have many redeeming qualities for sure….

Jesus is so many things to us but to the first century church they depended upon Jesus directly to empower the church and make them victorious over all their obstacles. They didn’t have the Bible yet they depended upon complete faith and trust that Jesus is……

The events in the first half of the Tribulation and the mid-point of the tribulation.

Isaiah provides data on the future day of the Lord and the time following. He details numerous aspects of Israel’s future kingdom on earth not found elsewhere in the Old or New Testaments, including changes in nature, the animal world, Jerusalem’s status among the nations, the Suffering Servant’s leadership, and others. It is one of those prophecies that we will look at today.

The events at the middle of the Tribulation period.

These verses contain two sets of three items, describing John’s readers as little children, Young men, and fathers. These three classifications are not about gender, physical age groups or spiritual stages. Rather, it seems that each group is a reference to all of John’s readers. For example, viewed as little children, they know their sins are forgiven. Viewed as fathers, they not only have a relationship with God, but they also have knowledge of God that comes from obedience to His commandments. Viewed as young men, they are strong. We should go through three steps to mature faith in Christ. Sadly most Christians don’t get beyond the child stage. These stages use male designations but they are comparisons for all of us. What stage are you at?

Events in the first half of the Tribulation. Interesting take on Revelation chapters 4, 5 and 6

The Bible says that broad is the way that leads to destruction and narrow is the way that leads to life. So most people will reject the free salvation offered in Jesus Christ. Why would people do such a thing. I think It comes down to three reasons.

Hebrews 1:1-2 Prophecy is about the world going to Jesus, giving account to Jesus and trusting Jesus.