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sobota, 20 sierpień 2011 18:15

English flowers (8)

Flower no. 8

W British Musem w pomieszczeniu nr 10b zatytułowanym „The Capture of Lachisz” znajdują się eksponaty upamiętniające zdobycie przez króla asyryjskiego Sennacheryba judzkiego miasta Lakisz. Miało to miejsce w 701 r. przed Chr.  Pośród wielu informacji możemy przeczytać takie zadanie:

He [Sennacherib] did not capture Hezekiah's capital, Jerusalem, he may not even have planned to, but instead he devasteted the vero strong and important city of Lachisz (British Museum, room 10B).

Sennacheryb nie zdobył Jerozolimy, która była stolicą króla Ezechiasza. Nawet mógł nie planować jej zdobycia. Zamiast tego zniszczył bardzo potężne i ważne miasto Lakisz.

No cóż. Biblia mówi, że Sennacheryb chciał zdobyć Jerozolimę, ale niestety bez powodzenia, bo Pan Bóg w sposób cudowny obronił miasto (2 Krl 18-19; 2Krn  32).

Nie wiem na czym opierali się specjaliście od sali 10b w British Museum, ale niedaleko im do wydawców „Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations” (ed. S. Ratcliffe, 2000). Książka zawiera cenne myśli kilkuset autorów. Pośród nich jest Sokrates, Platon, św. Augustyn czy Mark Twain. Ale kiedy przytaczają słowa Jezusa podają, iż powiedziała jej „Biblia”. Stąd w indeksie autorów można nadaremnie szukać imienia Jezus, chociaż cytowany jest wcale nie rzadko.

No cóż. Chyba Ktoś komuś przeszkadza.

Dział: Kwiatki
czwartek, 18 sierpień 2011 19:00

Is Jesus a King? (34B)

Jerusalem-Notre Dame, 26th November 2006

 

Dear Christians,

The truth about Christ the King is from one side very evident.
This is the side of the Bible, The Bible understood as The Old and New Testament.
We have read a reading from the book of the Prophet Daniel. He describes a Son of man who received dominion, glory and kingship. All peoples and nations serve him and his kingship shall not be destroyed.
The prophet Daniel didn’t know yet who was a Son of Man. This question was for the saint John just resolved. He writes in the book of Revelation that Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.
Jesus himself didn’t want to say directly to Pilate: Yes, I am king. But he said it in other words: “My kingdom does not belong to this world”, “My kingdom is not here”, “You say I am a king”.
So, everybody who reads the Bible, especially the New Testament he is sure: Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords.
This is the side of the Bible. From this point of view the truth about Christ the King is evident and without doubts. 

But there is the other side. The side that we can call Pilate’s side. This is the point of view of Jews, Muslims, Atheists, generally all who are not Christians. They see Jesus like Pilate, it means they see Jesus bound, week, strange, incomprehensible, They can not believe how this man can be king of kings, because there is no evidence for it. Half of all evidence come from the resurrection of Christ, but they don’t believe in the resurrection of Christ. Half of all evidence will come after our resurrection, but we still live. 
We can not say: they are not intelligent. We can not say they are stupid. We can say they have the other eyes than we have and the other hearts than we have.

But there is also the third side in the thinking about Christ the King. This is mine and your point of view. All we know Jesus is King, but how somebody can be a King if he can not govern? Does Jesus rules over your decisions? Does Jesus govern your life? Am I really his servant or maybe I am rather his adviser? My and your heart is the field of the fight over the kingship of Christ. We decide in every moment of our daily life who is right: Pilate or Christ.

Dear Christians,
If we are not convinced that Jesus is really King of kings it is not because the Bible is wrong or because non-believers are right. It is because we speak like Jesus but we life like Pilate.

Dział: Sermons

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