Thursday, October 06, 2005
Lets go to Church and be good
Right to die. You never have the right to die no matter what. If you give the right to die to one you have to give it to all. I am appalled that this is back at the courts and frankly this case is the most important case one is ever going to decide. To make a line where one is able to die is to make it ok for anyone to die. It is a no brainier that the government does not have the right to allow killing of any kind. Beyond the government no one has the right to die. If you want to die it is the job of the medical doctor to save your life and it is the job of him to keep you alive. It sickens me to think there is even a thought that one can die because he is going to anyhow. To me to want to die is so not rational it is a illness.
I want to look at the bible and talk about a man that gave his life to us and did die for you.
6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”[1]
So we find the Lord at a table and a lady that we do not know pouring a bottle of oil on gthe head. It to me shows this lady was a believer and knows the death of Jesus is near. It was to the 12 a waste of money that could of went to the poor. Jesus said this woman has done a good thing and she honored Jesus with the best she had and she was going to a part of this account forever for giving. So we learn the Lord wants us to honor him in worship and praise. We need to set time to go to church and to be a part of a local body. May I take a bit of a rabbit trail. I do not think it is right to just go to a home church and think that is going to help people. A local church is taught in the bible and you need to be in one. Being a home church is not the one taught in the bible. A church is a place to get together in a place that you become a family and you go and help each other. It is a place to learn about the Lord. It is a place to submit to you Pastor and listen to people that have learned to walk tight with Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
I want to look at the bible and talk about a man that gave his life to us and did die for you.
6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.”[1]
So we find the Lord at a table and a lady that we do not know pouring a bottle of oil on gthe head. It to me shows this lady was a believer and knows the death of Jesus is near. It was to the 12 a waste of money that could of went to the poor. Jesus said this woman has done a good thing and she honored Jesus with the best she had and she was going to a part of this account forever for giving. So we learn the Lord wants us to honor him in worship and praise. We need to set time to go to church and to be a part of a local body. May I take a bit of a rabbit trail. I do not think it is right to just go to a home church and think that is going to help people. A local church is taught in the bible and you need to be in one. Being a home church is not the one taught in the bible. A church is a place to get together in a place that you become a family and you go and help each other. It is a place to learn about the Lord. It is a place to submit to you Pastor and listen to people that have learned to walk tight with Jesus.
[1]The New King James Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1998, c1982.
