Hide or Seek

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Sep 27, 2009
  • Series: Life's Healing Choices

LIFE’S HEALING CHOICES

Introduction to the Beatitudes

“Hide or Seek”

  Pastor Duane Cross |  09.27.09

     

“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to him.”

                                                                        (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)


“These rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction. They say to the seers, ‘ See no more visions!’ and to the prophets, ‘Give us no more visions of what is right!’ Tell us, pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!”                                    (Isaiah 30:9-11)

 

“Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says: ‘Because you have rejected this message, relied on oppression and depended on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a heart or scooping water out of a cistern.’ This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: ‘In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. You said, “No, we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses’. Therefore your pursuers will be swift!”          (Isaiah 30:12-16)                                         

 

“Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them saying: ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.’ ”                 (Matthew 5:1-4) 

           

“To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'  But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

                                                                        (Luke 18:9-14)

       

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

                                                                        (Matthew 5:3)

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Janet Martin on Oct 1, 2009 12:16pm

Pastor, the message was just what I needed to hear, even though I had to wait until Thursday to listen to you. Thank you for the online recording of your message! Janet