12/26/10 UNDELIVERED GIFTS
Hey, did you ever find yourself, after Christmas, with gifts that you had not yet delivered to other people?
Hey, did you ever find yourself, after Christmas, with gifts that you had not yet delivered to other people?
Well, God has given believers the responsibility to give His gift of love and salvation to other people (Ro. 1:14; 2 Co. 5:19-20).
Look under the TREE (the Cross; Ac. 5:30; 10:39; 13:29; Ga. 3:13: [based on Joshua. 10:26-27]) and you will see gifts for all your friends.
Be sure to distribute them.
PASSAGES...
WE HAVE SOMEONE'S GIFT...
Romans 1:14
(14) I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
DLG notes...
God has given us the message of salvation, to give to other people. Until we deliver it, we owe it to them.
2 Corinthians 5:19-20
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
(20) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
DLG notes...
Believers have the responsibility to call on others to be reconciled to God.
JESUS HUNG ON A TREE IN AN IGNOMINIOUS DEATH...
Acts 5:30
(30) The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts 10:39
(39) And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts 13:29
(29) And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.
Galatians 3:13-14
(13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
(14) That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Joshua 10:26-27
(26) And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
(27) And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
DLG notes...
To die by hanging or crucifixion was an ignominious death. Christ died a terrible and despicable form of death.
PASSAGES...
WE HAVE SOMEONE'S GIFT...
Romans 1:14
(14) I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
DLG notes...
God has given us the message of salvation, to give to other people. Until we deliver it, we owe it to them.
2 Corinthians 5:19-20
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
(20) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
DLG notes...
Believers have the responsibility to call on others to be reconciled to God.
JESUS HUNG ON A TREE IN AN IGNOMINIOUS DEATH...
Acts 5:30
(30) The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
Acts 10:39
(39) And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
Acts 13:29
(29) And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.
Galatians 3:13-14
(13) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
(14) That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Joshua 10:26-27
(26) And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
(27) And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
DLG notes...
To die by hanging or crucifixion was an ignominious death. Christ died a terrible and despicable form of death.
In the Joshua passage the instrument of death was called a tree, and thus the interpretation of the "tree" passages in the New Testament. The word can also be translated stick, wood, plank, timber or gallows.
Remember, when people put up Christmas trees, they are often cut trees or dead trees, so the use of the word tree for the tree product is not unusual, even in our day.
Remember, when people put up Christmas trees, they are often cut trees or dead trees, so the use of the word tree for the tree product is not unusual, even in our day.
