Call to Commitment

 Introduction to an espository study of Hebrews 

No particular author, time, place or church

 It is with obvious purpose that the human author is not named, therefore it is not wise to arrive at a definite conclusion. I think, that would be a mistake, because the evidence is not conclusive. However, that fact does not rule out private conjecture or even a personal opinion. I have to admit that I have come short of forming an opinion. I have never thought it necessary to do so and, in fact, I felt that the authorship was purposely withheld for a reason, which I will give a little later.  

 (Re-posted from June, 2015) 

Trying to encourage parents to teach their children the right things, I have been sharing the fact that, because I was raised in the church, I have hundreds of hymns in my head, sometimes including all the verses. They didn’t do me much good as a child, but now, it seems to me that these words come to me on a daily basis and I am blessed with their riches.

  This morning was a little different. A line and a tune from a contemporary song kept running through my head, “How deep the Father’s love for us” and I was stuck, because I didn’t know the song. I got out of bed, went to the internet and found these words:

 

 

 How Deep the Father's Love for Us

 How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure;

That He should give His only Son, to make a wretch His treasure.

How great the pain of searing loss, the Father turns His face away;

As wounds which mar the chosen One, bring many sons to glory.

 

Behold the Man upon the cross, my sin upon His shoulders;

Ashamed I hear my mocking voice, call out among the scoffers.

It was my sin that held Him there, until it was accomplished;

His dying breath has brought me life, I know that it is finished.

 

I will not boast in anything, no gifts, nor power, nor wisdom;

But I will boast in Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection.

Why should I gain from His reward, I cannot give an answer;

But this I know with all my heart, His wounds have paid my ransom.

Few Christian

This article taken from chapter 16

s these days know anything about a church that is not under man’s control, where only Christ is the architect with the plan and He is constructing beyond human knowledge. I wrote about the church in my book, God Made the Country, and I thought it might be good to post the last chapter. It will give an idea of the true church and how it functions, even in modern times, if Christ is the Head and has the control.

 

 THE CHURCH – A LIVING BODY

 “(The Father) put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in all.”            

                                                Ephesians 1:22-23                                                                                              

  A Christian of German descent in Wisconsin was  reading  a small-town newspaper from North Dakota. His eyes scanned the church announcements and suddenly he felt a compulsion to pray for one of these churches. It seemed strange to him, because the church wasn’t of the same denomination as his own church and he had never visited it. Every year he drove 500 miles to North Dakota to help relatives (who sent the paper to him) with their harvest. Months later, during the next harvest season, in his curiosity to discover the reason behind the strange desire to pray, he walked into the little church in Finley, ND.