Season 8, Episode 6, The World and God

76-8-6, SHOW  NOTES & COPYRIGHTS,  (Scheduled 9/29/2022)                       Today we are going to read poems about and discuss man’s rebellion against God;  what it has done and what we can do about it.BROKEN HEARTED (God’s Rhyme, pg. 141)A chosen people led to a land promised by God,And in another land God chosen by the people.I. The Promised LandAfter the fall of man sin prevailed.There were times when sin was hailed.Amid that sin in which the world regaledLived a people, God's chosen ones.Throughout their history in Old Testament times,Through prosperity and captivity, perils and dangers,Whether living a promise or amidst strangers,They were at times distracted from looking toward the manger. Though they had the Law,All around they sawThe perversions of idolsAs their faith became idle.If they could only have seenGod at the end of the prophesies.Knowing what it would mean,Would they have forsaken idolatry?the rebellionthe forgivenessagain and againand over againGod's chosen people since the time in the GardenSinned and mocked their Father Creator,Then the sacrifice of a spotless lamb of woolTo forgive the sins of their hearts so full.year after yeartear after teara new sacrificefor the after lifeAfter so many years and so many tearsThe ultimate sacrifice had to be made,Sorrow upon sorrowLeft no time to borrow.Discussion:II.  God As ManSo . . . God, through Jesus, by human birth became man,To become one of His own creation,To live in this world as one of usSo He could complete His saving plan.Jesus, one with God, humbled Himself,The ultimate and eternal sacrifice,To pay the price, not by earthly deeds or self, But by His precious shed blood.Not a sacrifice to be repeated year after year,Jesus died for sins from the time of the Garden, Now and until the end of daysSo we  may stand before God without fear.Discussion:III, The Days AnewThen as an hour in a dayOf a thousand years,A people persecuted for their faithLeft where they could no longer stay.Their ocean voyage a second journey to the promised land.Believing they were fulfilling what God had planned;As Israel became the first Jerusalem,America was to become as a new Jerusalem. *God prevaileda people thrivedthe land was hailedfor those deprivednow able to worshipto pray to Godwithout the kingshipcommands of manbut the world interruptedand lives were corruptedidols reveredGod not fearedAs in ages before. though a revival or twoMan still ate from the tree of strife..They were so many more than a fewNever, not ever, foreseeing their life.Discussion:IV, Yesterday And TodayThe chosen ones, worshiping false gods,Sacrificed their children on altars of sin;Hundreds, thousands, breathing now dead.Hoping ... , forgetting ... , denying God.Now today, a people who chose GodAre taking their children, those unborn,And,...