![]() ![]() Common sense should tell us that if Jesus is speaking about eschatological events they are sealed and true future events and are immune to clever men and their vain theologies. Nevertheless, those warnings are typically made of none effect by clever theologies that try and insulate believers from those words. (Matthew 25:14-30, Matthew 7:21-24) We have many warnings in the Gospels along these lines. (Hebrews 10:27-31) We have to ask ourselves what Christ will do with those people who have been left in charge of His “vineyard” or “flock” and yet are treating those things as if they were their own and not the Lord’s. Moreover, we have also to consider the fact that the Lord is going to judge His people and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. (Matthew 12:41 Luke 11:42) Why? Because the people of Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonah, but now an infinitely greater messenger than Jonah has come. The programmatic message of the repentance of the city of Nineveh is available to all of us therefore, Jesus said that they, the Ninevites, will rise up in judgment against all who hear the word of Christ and refuse to repent and believe. Everyone was commanded to turn away from their evil ways and mourn their past actions in sackcloth and ashes. Having no Bible or means of knowing how to respond to the message of Jonah they proclaimed a fast for everyone including the animals. The revealed meaning of this word “repent” is described by Jesus who used the wicked city of Nineveh as his archetype “repentance” city. Once the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ has come, that period of “overlooking” is over and the standing command is to repent. He sent them rain in an attempt to express His goodness with a view to their repentance. (Stupid, stupid assumption, I know.) Anyway, I'll keep trying to get the bugs out, but if the player doesn't work, you should be able to right click the hyperlinked text and download the mp3 files to play in whatever way does work.Let none ever suggest that God is not merciful for He had overlooked the sins of multitudes leading up to the advent of Jesus Christ. ![]() ![]() I'm not sure if it ever did, or if I just assumed that if it works in Firefox it will just work. Additional note: it appears that the audio player doesn't work in Explorer. So once again, sorry for the inconvenience if anyone experienced problems with the site over the last few months. I also always intended to upload music files as well, but haven't gotten around to finishing any song recordings. I've also uploaded my sermon files onto a more reliable platform, so they shouldn't disappear again. I'm trying out Google's version on this post. I had found and imported the javascript into this site's source code a few days before Google came out with this announcement that it had created its own means of accomplishing the same thing. Both the javascript that worked the magic for the "Read More" tags and the audio files that had the messages on the Audio page were hosted at third-party sites and eventually quit, so evidently both haven't been working for who knows how long. I've been doing a few repairs to get things back up to speed. Sorry if that was an inconvenience to the handful who were actually reading. I obviously haven't kept up with the site for a while, and came back to find that a few things had fallen into disrepair. ![]()
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