The ridiculous kind of impromptu stuff that happens with the LPL team. This was my makeshift set where I attempted the rest of the teaching straight to camera after the snowpocalypse. The door was my visual aid for the theme. Between takes. So what if only one of us can sing?
Jesus. The name of Jesus.
The gorgeous
all-glorious
saving
delivering
joy giving
devil defeating
death defying
hope reviving
Name of Jesus.
Worthy is He.
And when I think of God, His Son not sparing
Sent Him to die,
I scarce can take it in
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing He bled and died to take away my sin
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee
How great Thou art
"Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during the days of his sinning God kept the door of mercy open by refusing to accept any of his evil acts as final." AW Tozer
Everything before the Cross looks toward the Cross . . . everything since then looks back. The Cross stands in the center of time as a point in time when we can come and have our sins forgiven. We can get right with God. We can enter into a personal relationship with God.
Killer reading this AM. 2 Kings 19. Sennacherib, conqueror-king of Assyria, invades Judah. Sends officers & large army to Jerusalem with a message of taunts & threats to Judah’s King Hezekiah who is shaken to the core knowing he’s made good on his threats to surrounding nations->
I threw my head back & laughed & had to stand to my feet. That’s the kind of thing you slap your desk over & clap your hands. THAT’S our God. We needn’t worry when our enemy launches taunts, insults & threats against us. Spread them out before the Lord.
He knows where he lives.
These are direct quotes of God to Sennacherib straight out of 2 Kings 19:22 & 27 in the NET.
1st one:”Whom have you taunted & hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted & looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!”
You ready for the second one?
“I know where you live.”
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
#CSLewis
Some feel there isn’t even a light at the end of the tunnel. Feelings of little or no hope.
If you feel this way, please choose to live another day. I promise things will get better. Hang on. God loves you and will help you. We need you!
Please stay ❤️
- Papa Ostler
Make mute the stones this day, Church! Shout hosannas and wave palm branches. Let there be no doubt to all who hear, we have a King. One crucified for our sins, raised from the dead, triumphant over hell and grave, seated at God’s own right hand. And He will again come riding in.
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
#CSLewis
The Problem of Pain