July 29, 2018
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” ~ Psalm 119:103-105 ~ There’s an old preacher story — I think I may have told it once as a sermon illustration — about a recent graduate from the local seminary who was being interviewed by the Board of Ordained ministry. He was asked, “What part of the Bible do you like best?” He answered, “I like the New Testament.” The board asked, “What book of the New Testament?” “Well,” said the young minister, “I think it’s the Book of Parables.” One of the elders then said, “Will you kindly relate one of those parables to this board?” This young graduate knew he was up against it, but he also knew it was possible that the members of the board knew less about the Bible than he did, so he proceeded as follows... “Once upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and he fell among thieves and the thorns grew up and choked the man and he went on and he didn’t have any money and then he met the queen of Sheba and she gave that man a thousand talents of gold and silver and a hundred changes of raiment’s and when he was driving along under a tree his hair got caught in a limb and left him hanging there. He hung there many days and many nights and the ravens brought him food to eat and water to drink and one night when he was hanging there asleep, his wife, Delilah, came along and cut his hair off and he dropped and fell on stony ground and it began to rain and it rained forty days and forty nights and he hid himself in a cave and the man went out into the highways and byways and compelled them all to come in. “Then he went up to Jerusalem and he saw Queen Jezebel sitting high up in a window and when she saw him she laughed at him, so he said, ‘Throw her down out of there,’ and they threw her down. He said, ‘Throw her down again,’ and they threw her down again. And he said, ‘Throw her down again,’ and they threw her down seventy time seven and the fragments they picked up were twelve basketfuls. “Now, I ask you, whose wife will she be on the day of judgment?” Continued on page 2
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