PROVE GOD'S POWER
The Bible admonishes proof of God's glorious power in human lives. These proofs were demonstrated by Jesus Christ in miracle after miracle and in parable after parable, during his lifetime; and most emphatically in his iconic crucifixion and resurrection.
The enthusiastic, early Christians' many thousands of blissful, joyful martyrdoms for the cause of Christ in the Roman Coliseum transmogrified, mesmerized, scandalized, and proselytized that ruthless, pagan, sanguinary conqueror, Rome, to the mystical and redeeming power of "the Way" of God: transforming Rome from world pagan to world Prelate That's proof!
The braving of bullets, billy clubs, police-dogs, water-hoses, bombs, and lynchings by scores of black and white martyrs and soldiers proved to the doubting and disbelieving blacks, whites, sheriffs' deputies, politicians, and bushwhackers, that the "Way of God" still worked in the 1950's and '60s, as these modern Christian soldiers overcame ubiquitous segregation and voting discrimination in the "Solid South." That too was proof!
Now, as before, the followers of the Way, of Jesus Christ, must lead the way, by irrefragable proofs, that yet there abides the power of the living God to effect deliverance from the last remaining barrier of economic oppression in order to set the people free indeed, through faith and works.
From ancient to modern the proof is irrefutable that the true followers of "the Way" can do more than believe, more than praise, more than preach, and can do more than pray; they can deliver proofs that God rules and super-rules in the Earth, by effecting deliverance from oppression like before, as before, as heretofore.
"Prove me now herewith" says Malachi 3:10. To which I say "right on the Way! Stay on the Way!"
Right on!
The Bible admonishes proof of God's glorious power in human lives. These proofs were demonstrated by Jesus Christ in miracle after miracle and in parable after parable, during his lifetime; and most emphatically in his iconic crucifixion and resurrection.
The enthusiastic, early Christians' many thousands of blissful, joyful martyrdoms for the cause of Christ in the Roman Coliseum transmogrified, mesmerized, scandalized, and proselytized that ruthless, pagan, sanguinary conqueror, Rome, to the mystical and redeeming power of "the Way" of God: transforming Rome from world pagan to world Prelate That's proof!
The braving of bullets, billy clubs, police-dogs, water-hoses, bombs, and lynchings by scores of black and white martyrs and soldiers proved to the doubting and disbelieving blacks, whites, sheriffs' deputies, politicians, and bushwhackers, that the "Way of God" still worked in the 1950's and '60s, as these modern Christian soldiers overcame ubiquitous segregation and voting discrimination in the "Solid South." That too was proof!
Now, as before, the followers of the Way, of Jesus Christ, must lead the way, by irrefragable proofs, that yet there abides the power of the living God to effect deliverance from the last remaining barrier of economic oppression in order to set the people free indeed, through faith and works.
From ancient to modern the proof is irrefutable that the true followers of "the Way" can do more than believe, more than praise, more than preach, and can do more than pray; they can deliver proofs that God rules and super-rules in the Earth, by effecting deliverance from oppression like before, as before, as heretofore.
"Prove me now herewith" says Malachi 3:10. To which I say "right on the Way! Stay on the Way!"
Right on!