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NASB | Matthew 22:42 "What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He?" They *said to Him, "The son of David." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:42 "What do you [Pharisees] think of the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? Whose Son is He?" They said to Him, "The son of David." |
Subject: What if Jesus was born in 1971? |
Bible Note: For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction? But these responses are becoming quite predictable. The idea that no idea arising outside the brains of the fabulous four can have any purpose is beginning to sound suspicious. Repetitive, redundant, and suspicious. What if these responses are actually geared to block or discourage any ideas that they did not initiate or find it difficult to control? I submit to you, my friends, that the issue of Jesus Christ coming today is live. I suggest to you, besides, that it is the most important issue facing us. Far beyond the demonstration of our knowledge of Scripture, there is the issue of the way a person today responds to Christ. Jesus not only suffered and died. He rose again, and he lives today. He ever lives, and he waits for those who would come to God by him, today. He stands at the door and knocks, and he waits for those who would invite him in, today. If you tell us that this is an issue of idle speculation, you are doing us a great disservice. Please desist. And please do not reinterpret the question for me, that I have asked. I know what I asked and I know what the intention was. Those who view the movie, and those who talk about it have a live issue to deal with and it is this: What do you do with what you have seen? How do you respond to the living Christ? Jesus died some 2,000 years ago, but his death is an ever-present reality, and we must respond to it. Let us not treat it as history. Those who do would have missed the point. God has put the death of Christ back in our faces today so we can deal with it. As if it had just happened. Please let me say what I want to say, and let those who wish to respond to it do so. Please do us the favor of letting those of us who want to think so think that the question and the message is not irrelevant, but pressing and important. Surely you have noted that there is at least one person who thinks the question is not a matter of idle speculation. By the grace of God there will be others. Please do not try to nullify us with your depreciatory statements. |