Sunday, September 30, 2012

Garden of Gethsemane

We ate at the Olive Garden yesterday with Clarence and Nancy and the Fitzgeralds.  All you can eat pasta, salad, breadsticks and soup.  The never ending pasta bowl.  We stayed for a while and just visited and ate.  It was pretty good.
  This got me to thinking of the Garden of Gethsemane in how Jesus went to the garden to pray in anticipation of offering the world a never ending love and eternal salvation by just believing what Jesus did for us.
  We had to pay to eat the never ending pasta, but Jesus paid with his life for the eternal salvation that we have.  Salvation became free to us, but as a cost to Jesus.

Gethsemane in the Bible: Matthew 26:36-46


Saturday, July 7, 2012

Distinction of God and Jesus

Gal. 1.  Paul references God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ.  The Bible clearly denotes a distinction between the two.  God so loved us that He gave His only son.  Here we are reminded that God had only one child and He gave him to save us.

In Gal. 1:4 Paul says that Jesus gave himself according to the will of God to deliver us from this present evil world.  I'll don't understand this relationship how Jesus is God and God is Jesus, but I read that the Bible speaks that there is a separation but it also talks about unity between them.  If I don't fully understand then why should I try to discuss this with others to try and get them to understand.  The main thing we should do as Christians is to love the person and live like God would want us to.  We just need to tell others that a belief in Jesus saves.

Memory Verse Challenge - Gal. 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of god and our Father: