As I prepare to lead a Bible study next week, I pondered the Lord’s warning to the socially sophisticated and theologically proud religious leaders of His day. You’ll find what He said in Matthew 13:
“Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; For the heart of this people has become dull, With their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they would see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and return, and I would heal them’.
Then I thought of two other serious warnings of Scripture – the first in Jeremiah 12:5, the second in Luke 23:27-31:
“If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?” (Jeremiah)
“And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’. . . . For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?” (Luke)
If you were teaching the class, what application(s) to our lives in 2019 would you hope those studying with you would make?
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