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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Jesus and the Church

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Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then, looking in, I saw upon the floor
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

“How many anvils have you had,” said I,
“To wear and batter all these hammers so?”
“Just one,” said he, and then, with twinkling eye,
The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.”

And so, thought I, the anvil of God’s Word,
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed - and hammers gone.
                                                                                                        Anonymous
For centuries the enemies of Christianity have persecuted Christians. There have been many secular prophets for centuries predicting the end to Christianity, yet still it continues on.
The reason it continues on is because Christians are telling the truth. There is a God that loves them, that sent His one and only Son to earth to die for the sins of each man and woman.
When two of Jesus Apostles were brought up before the Sanhedrin for preaching the salvation message of Christ. They were going to put them to death but a wise man, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law stood up and said,
“Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail.  
But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.” 
Acts 5:38,39
Gamaliel was right Jesus came from God. He is everything he said he was.
C.S. Lewis wrote,
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                                                                                                           C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The choice however to believe in Jesus is up to you the reader.
Please think about it.

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