Heavy

 

Hitters from Pastor Bridgette's Sermon

New Chapel UMC

4/10/2022

There were plenty of "Heavy Hitters" in the text she read from believe me. 

I went back and reread all of the text and these were the verses that really jumped out at me for whatever reason. This is how you know it is a mystical book, different verses "resonate" at different times for different reasons even though the text stays the same...

In no particular order:

Luke 22:46

“Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”

Which Reminded me of:

Luke 21:34

“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

Luke 23:29-30

For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’  

Then “‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”

    and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

Which is a reference to 

Hosea 10:8

(Oh yeah, if there is a reference to Hosea? Were going there :-).

The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—

    it is the sin of Israel.

Thorns and thistles will grow up

    and cover their altars.

Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”

    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

Funny...been talking a lil bit here lately about: 

"I and I didn't come to fight flesh and blood

 but spiritual wickedness in high and low places 

So while they fight you down,

Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises..."

And about "The barren woman"...and...and...and...etc...

Also? 

Luke 23:29-30

reminded me of:

Revelation 6:15-16 

Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

"They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!"

Yeah...good luck with that...

and:

Isaiah 2:10-22

(Not all of it came to mind, mind you, just the similarity of vs 10, 19, 21)

Go into the rocks, hide in the ground

    from the fearful presence of the Lord

    and the splendor of his majesty!

The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled

    and human pride brought low;

the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

The Lord Almighty has a day in store

    for all the proud and lofty,

for all that is exalted

    (and they will be humbled),

for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty,

    and all the oaks of Bashan,

for all the towering mountains

    and all the high hills,

for every lofty tower

    and every fortified wall,

for every trading ship

    and every stately vessel.

The arrogance of man will be brought low

    and human pride humbled;

the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,

and the idols will totally disappear.

People will flee to caves in the rocks

    and to holes in the ground

from the fearful presence of the Lord

    and the splendor of his majesty,

    when he rises to shake the earth.

In that day people will throw away

    to the moles and bats

their idols of silver and idols of gold,

    which they made to worship.

They will flee to caverns in the rocks

    and to the overhanging crags

from the fearful presence of the Lord

    and the splendor of his majesty,

    when he rises to shake the earth.

Stop trusting in mere humans,

    who have but a breath in their nostrils.

    Why hold them in esteem?

Luke 23:40

But the other criminal rebuked him. 

“Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?

We all should have been under the same sentence. We are all the ones that should have been on that cross, every last one of us...

Luke 23:18

And they all cried out at once, saying, “Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas”—

Are we not all Barabbas?

Luke 22:28

“But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials.

:-)...

No comment :-).

Luke 22:26-27

But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

I love you honey, have a great day sweetheart :-).