LIFE IS UNFAIR

May 12, 2009 by Ken Blue

LIFE IS UNFAIR
By Ken Blue

“Life is unfair” I heard a mother say,
As she placed her lifeless infant ‘neath the cold indifferent clay

“Life is unfair” an abandoned wife groaned,
As she clutched the letter to her heart while standing all alone

“Life is unfair” said a student not chosen for the team,
While others reach the top through their shrewd and cunning schemes

“Life is unfair” said a prisoner in his cell,
As greater injustice went unchecked inside his living hell

“Life is unfair” said a child with tearful eyes so sad,
As the court divided his life between his mom and dad

“Life is unfair” said a minority in a foreign land,
As others got the better jobs and the helping hand

“Life is unfair” the Heavenly Father explained,
“Adam made a willful choice and My Words he profaned”

Life is unfair while Satan rules and reigns,
Where death, heartache and misery fill his domain

“Life is unfair” will cease to be the cry,
When Jesus reigns on earth with his kingdom from on high

NO ONE LOOKED FORWARD TO THE CROSS

Looking Forward By Ken Blue

“Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. 32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: 33 And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. 34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.” Luke 18:31-34.

Most Christians think that, prior to Jesus’ death, Old Testament believers looked forward to the cross and those of us on this side looked back. However, that is only a half truth. Any honest believer must admit that none of the twelve disciples were looking forward to Jesus’ death on the cross or to His resurrection; neither were the women who went to the tomb to embalm His dead body. Notice the above verses, and you will see that verse 34 is the key. “And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.” You can read. Do you think the Twelve preached the death, burial and resurrection of Christ in any fashion for three and one-half years when they didn’t understand one thing about His coming death? In fact, no one looked forward to Christ’s death.

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The only gospel preached, prior to Paul, was the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. The content of that gospel was: believe the message about the coming Messiah, repent of your sins, be baptized and remain faithful to the end. I am confident that many of the brethren will have a cardiac arrest over this, but the stubborn facts must replace centuries of tradition. It is true; we look back to the cross where Jesus died for our sins and accept His death, burial and resurrection for sin as our substitute. However, no one prior to the cross looked forward to that event for their personal salvation, even though His death is found in type and prophecy all through the Scriptures.

HELL

April 20, 2009 by Ken Blue

HELL
By Ken Blue
Hell is a place you need not go
With its everlasting sufferings
As a blazing inferno

Hell has no breeze; not one drop of rain
To ease the inhabitants
From their eternal pain

Hell is the home of the lost and the damned
With no mercy possible
Says Father Abraham

Hell is a place where the soul never dies
Where those weeping and wailing
Never cease their cries

Hell is a place you need not go
Sin’s penalty was paid
A long time ago

Hell has no claim on those who trust Christ
So accept Him today
He’s paid the full price

A HOLY DISCONTEMENT

April 14, 2009 by Ken Blue

DISCONTENTMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN

By Ken Blue

“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.” Psalms 17:15.
“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:” 2 Corinthians 5:2.
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:24.

I am fully aware of the Bible verses that teach the child of God to be content. If it were not for these, we would surely despair of life. However, God does expect His children to be discontent and He approves it in some situations.

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We wonder how anyone could read the book of Job and not identify with some of the discontentment experience in his life. David expressed a holy discontentment in the above text. Much of the time his physical life was in jeopardy. He knew the resurrection was the only sure path to complete contentment. Paul said the same thing when he confessed that we, along with all creation groan and travail in this body. We will never be completely satisfied until we awake in His likeness! That will happen at the rapture of the saints.

We are not expected to be content with the sins of this world. The world’s philosophy is our enemy, and it will destroy our joy and effectiveness for Christ if we become content with it. Then there is the incurable sin nature in every person. We find that each time we would do good, evil rears its ugly head. No child of God can be content with his own sinful nature. How often, like Paul, we have cried, “O wretched man that I am…” But, thanks be to God, even in our holy discontentment there is the assurance that we too will be in His likeness soon, and our holy discontentment will be a thing of the past, never to be remembered anymore!

God’s Abundant Grace

April 8, 2009 by Ken Blue

This message is one of 12 in my Handfuls of Purpose series. If you enjoy it and would like to know how to have individual messages or the whole series, please email me and let me know. God bless you as you serve Him. God’s Abundant Grace – MP3 Click underlined text. Please give the buffer time to download.