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I've been studying the Bible for 30 years and I JUST learned this mind-blowing detail about John the Baptist and Elijah.
The Bible is GOD-BREATHED scripture. Just wait for the payoff, @CarlosErazoGTG delivers 👇
Listeeeeeeeen....this is wild! 😳 Glory be to our Father in Heaven that He cares for us so deeply 🙌
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This is very deep. Definitely makes someone step back and think about their own sin and where they stand before God 😳🤔. I don't know this gentleman, but thankful he wrote such a thought provoking piece.
A staggering number of David’s Psalms circle a single, relentless demand: that God annihilate the wicked, and do it quickly. The man who prayed them would not have survived the answer.
He asks God to break their teeth, drag them into the nets they hid for others, and strike with terrifying speed. When heaven moves too slowly, he presses again: Why do the wicked prosper? How long, O Lord?
At the time, David’s moral geometry was simple. He was a fugitive hiding in caves while King Saul hunted him with the machinery of an empire. In Adullam, the lines were clean. David was the righteous victim; his enemies were the oppressors; his prayers were the desperate cries of a man begging God to level an impossible playing field.
Then David got the throne. And the geometry collapsed.
From the palace balcony, he becomes the very archetype he had spent years cursing. He spots Bathsheba. He takes her. When she becomes pregnant, he writes a murder contract, forcing her husband, Uriah, to carry his own death sentence to the front lines. Uriah dies. David takes the widow.
Then came nearly a year in which Scripture records no confession, no repentance, and no confrontation. David lived under the comfortable presumption of sovereign immunity. He had become the powerful man who crushes the weak and assumed heaven didn’t notice.
When Nathan enters the throne room, he tells a story: a rich landowner with vast herds steals and slaughters a poor neighbor’s single, cherished pet lamb.
David’s prosecutorial instinct detonates. He flies into a rage and passes sentence: The man deserves to die, and must restore the lamb fourfold because he showed no pity.
Nathan looks at him and delivers the four words that should haunt anyone in love with their own moral outrage:
“You are the man.”
David had laid his own trap. He declared a death sentence on himself, and the fourfold restitution he demanded became the currency of his family’s destruction. Four of his sons died untimely deaths. The sword never left his house. The pit David dug was the pit he fell into.
The great theological irony of David’s life though is that if God had answered David’s earlier prayers at the speed he demanded, David would have been dead before Bathsheba’s child drew its first breath.
If heaven operated on the hair-trigger timeline of human indignation, judgment would have struck the palace the moment Uriah fell. David would never have made it to Nathan. No space to confront his depravity, no season to mourn, and no life left to utter, “I have sinned against the Lord,” no breath left to write Psalm 51.
The very slowness of God that David spent years complaining about was the only reason he survived his own reign.
The cry of “How long, O Lord?” is not foreign to Scripture. The martyrs beneath the altar in Revelation raise it too. What Scripture never grants us is a stopwatch on everyone’s guilt except our own.
We are recklessly impatient in our prayers for justice. When wronged, we demand cosmic vindication yesterday. We treat God’s hesitation as indifference, or worse, incompetence.
We forget that if God answered our prayers for judgment with the speed we demand for others, none of us would survive our hypocrisy. The standard we want applied to our enemies would incinerate us when our private failures catch up with our public righteousness.
The delay of God is mercy with a long horizon: the terrifying, tender patience of a God who refuses to execute the wicked on our schedule because He intends to leave room for repentance on His.
Before you ask heaven to move fast against the evil in front of you, make sure you can survive the speed of your own theology.
The plea from this Priest is so sincere and pure that it pierces the heart. Every sincere Christian should listen as this is what we should be focused on. JESUS!
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I watched as my dad slip away for two years until his end, from dementia, he was 92.
Dad was a cruel and hateful "Atheist" of a man, who heaped some terrible things upon his family and my sisters, of which I vowed at 12 to ki-ll him.
He stayed with us those last two years of his life.
Wheeling around the house, making demands and leering at my wife, which I put a stop to.
It was exhausting.
I watched as he started forgetting names and even where he was at.
One time he thought my family was a different family masquerading as mine.
Those two years, I read the bible nightly, mostly Psalms
and explained God's love for us and His hatred of sin.
I talked to dad one night recounting what he had done to my one sister and some of the other terrible things he had done.
I did that, as he was never told he was a sinner and it needed to be told.
I did actually tell him the gospel message and the sin of mankind because he came to me one day and asked me what changed me after I got saved.
Dad was genuinely curious.
The last two weeks of his life he started seeing things that he would reach out for.
Strangely, dad was still coherent and we would talk, though his voice sounded like he was coming from a different dimension or was in a tunnel.
One night I came to make sure dad was comfortable and to add some glycerin to his dried lips as he was taking in little water, and had stopped eating.
When dad exclaimed loudly "I'm so sorry for the bad things I've done."
I barely breathed and thought what is this?
I decided after some brief silent prayer, to share the gospel yet again with a man who never apologized in his life.
I asked dad do you want Jesus to forgive you of your sin?
Do you believe now as you lay dying, Jesus is truly the Son of God.
He said yes.
I led him in prayer and we talked some more and I left the room.
The following day as I entered His room he spoke first telling me "Jesus was the truth, He spoke truth."
Two days later dad passed on into the hands of Jesus.
I remember I cried like never before at the salvation of my dad, and the wonder of the salvation process.
I remembered the story of King Nebuchadnezzar and how in his insanity gave praise to God and God restored him to his former place.
My point?
Never give up praying for anyone for any reason.
God's grace extends to everyone.
Titus 2:11 “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.
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BE CAREFUL THE DOOR TO DEMONIC POSSESSIONS. Listen To Her Confessions, When The Power Hits Her
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The stones cry out, and now the old pages do too. 📜
Historians suggest a 2,000-year-old manuscript may hold a written account of Jesus rising from the dead.
Men have spent twenty centuries trying to explain away the empty tomb. They never could. And every time the earth gives up another witness, it says the same thing.
He is not here. He is risen. 👑
I don't need a manuscript to know my Redeemer lives, but it sure is a blessing to see. 🙏
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said." Matthew 28:6
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ARE YOU STRUGGLING WITH SIN 😳 OR DEMONIC STRONGHOLD??? Then Do Apply This Principles & Be Free
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Golf legend Scottie Scheffler was asked about his professional success and he literally does the INVERSE "rich young ruler" from the Bible.
This video is worth your time 👇
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Today on a long drive I worked through a four-part series on the life and martyrdom of William Tyndale. The more I listened, the heavier it got.
Tyndale was hunted, exiled, and betrayed for the “crime” of translating the Bible into English so ordinary people could read it. He was eventually strangled and burned at the stake in 1536. His dying prayer was, “Lord, open the King of England’s eyes.” He never lived to see the English Bible widely available. Yet his work shaped the language of the King James Bible and countless translations that followed.
A few hours later we pulled into a Pilot station. I’ve seen the Bible racks in those stores a hundred times, but after hearing what Tyndale endured, it stopped me cold. There, in a truck stop in America, sat copies of the Word of God that anyone could buy for a few dollars. No stake. No exile. No threat of death. Just a shelf by the coffee and the donuts.
We are still living off the blood and courage of that man. The same Book he died to give us is so common in our culture that it can sit unnoticed next to the jerky and the sunglasses. That should not go unnoticed.
Do not treat lightly what others paid for with their lives. Open it. Read it. Obey it. And do not let the ease of access breed indifference. The English Bible is not an accident of history. It is the fruit of a martyr’s obedience. Honor it.
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When I was Muslim, man, this verse used to mess me up.
Jesus on the cross saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
As a Muslim, I used to think: how does God feel forsaken by God? That sounds like weakness. That sounds like a prophet in pain.
But then I dug deeper.
And I realized Jesus was not speaking randomly. He was quoting Psalm 22.
That entire Psalm, written by King David centuries before Christ, is a prophecy about the crucifixion:
“They pierce my hands and feet.”
“They divide my garments among them.”
“All who see me mock me.”
In Jewish culture, quoting the first line of a Psalm pointed people to the entire passage.
So Jesus was not crying out in confusion.
He was declaring fulfillment.
He was saying: “This is that.”
And at the same time, He was carrying the full weight of sin, shame, abandonment, and suffering for humanity.
Every moment humanity has cried out, “God, where are you?” Christ stepped into that pain Himself.
That is not weakness.
That is intentional.
That is prophecy unfolding in real time.
That is the King bleeding on purpose so humanity could be brought near to God.
That is the Gospel.
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You know what wrecked me when I was newly Christian?
Genesis 22. For years as a Muslim, I was told the story was about Ishmael.
Then I actually read it. I think the bigger topic isn't Isaac or Ishmael.
It's this: Why would God ask Abraham to sacrifice his son in the first place? What kind of God does that?
The answer hit me like a freight train, because it shattered my Muslim worldview. God wasn't being cruel, He was painting a picture.
Abraham never goes through with sacrificaing Isaac. God stops him, then God provides a ram in his place. That action is not just a test or an isolated story: That's prophetic. It's a blueprint.
The blueprint goes: A father. A son. A sacrifice. A substitute.
You see where I am going with this.
Genesis 22 is actually the heartbeat of the Gospel. God was foreshadowing the day when He Himself would provide the sacrifice. Not for one man. Not only for one family.
But for the whole world. Of course, salvation wasn't earned by Abraham's performance. It came through God's provision.
You can recieve this substitute and gift. Here's what made me stop and think: The Quran retells the story of Genesis 22, but removes the name of the son. Why?
Because once you start following the thread through Genesis, the prophets, and the covenant promises, you eventually have to wrestle with the Lamb that comes later.
You have to wrestle with Jesus. The perfect sacrifice that every previous sacrifice pointed toward.
And that's when I realized: The story was never ultimately about Abraham. It was always about what God was going to do for us.
And there's nothing we can do to earn His approval! We can only receive the sacrifice He already provided.
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The reason I am doing what I am doing now is because of *this* sermon.
It might be the most impactful 2 minutes of preaching I've ever seen — and it changed my entire life.


















