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TEXT: ‘And the Lord turned and looked’ (Luke 22:61). Sometimes words aren’t necessary, as one look can convey what’s needed to be said, or get things done. Mark’s gospel mentions several times, “He looked” and these two words caught my attention and formed the basis for this teaching. 1. Jesus looked in anger At those with hardened hearts – ‘And when He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other’ (Mark 3:5). One would have thought the religious leaders would have welcomed with open arms anyone who could heal members of their congregation, but they would rather a hurting person stayed that way in keeping with their religious rules, than be set free by Jesus. It was a constant battle wherever Jesus went but He made sure everyone knew who was trying to stop the miracles. There are churches today where miracles of healing, gifts of the Holy Spirit and speaking with other tongues are not welcome. If ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever’ (Hebrews 13:8), then what He said and did then, should be re-enacted today by the church through the authority of the name of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. At unhelpful comments – ‘But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”’ (Mark 8:33). Peter’s attempt to rebuke Jesus was met...
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TEXT: ‘The women who had been companions of Jesus from Galilee followed along. They saw the tomb where Jesus’ body was placed. At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared’ (Luke 23:55, 24:1 MSG). The watching women saw Jesus on the cross, when some of His disciples may not have, for they ran away when Jesus was arrested. The women heard Jesus cry, “It is finished” and saw the soldier plunge the spear into His side, confirming His death. They saw Joseph, with the help of Nicodemus, take Jesus’ body down from the cross. After they bound it with strips of linen and spices, they laid the body in Joseph’s tomb and rolled a large stone across the entrance. Early on Easter morning, the women came with more spices to anoint the body of Jesus. The only question they were asking on the way was, “Who will roll away the stone?” They weren’t aware the tomb had been sealed on the orders of Pilate, and a Roman guard of soldiers were stationed to ensure Jesus’ disciples didn’t steal His body and then claim He had risen from the dead. This negated any chance the women had of being able to anoint the body of Jesus, but when they arrived at the tomb they saw: The stone rolled away – ‘Suddenly there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled aside the stone and sat on it’ (Matthew 28:2 TLB). After the great earthquake, the angel descended and rolled away...
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TEXT: ‘God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?’ (Numbers 23:19 NLT). Promises. Easy to make, but much harder to keep. Everyone has been let down by empty promises at some time in their life. The Bible says, ‘When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him. It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it’ (Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 NLT). Don’t make promises you have no intention of keeping. It’s wonderful that God is not a promise-breaker but a promise-keeper as our text indicates. Solomon prayed, ‘You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today. And now, O Lord, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, “If your descendants guard their behaviour and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel”’ (1 Kings 8:24-25 NLT). Today’s Teaching focusses on some of the things the Bible says about God’s Promises. 1. All the promises are for all the people – ‘For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to...
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