Moral Science Club

ARE YOU RUINED? THOUGHTS FROM ISAIAH 6   Note: Bible Study Fellowship is inaugurating their comprehensive, 30-week Bible study of the Prophet Isaiah.  Go to  http://bsfinternational.org/  to find a study near you.   Isaiah 6   Isaiah's Commission    1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:    "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;    the whole earth is full of his glory."    4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.      5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."         

THE MESSIANIC FINGERPRINTS OF JESSUS CHRIST PART ONE   The deeper one digs in the Old Testament the  more clear  the revelation of the coming Messiah Jesus becomes. The Bronze Snake that The Lord asks Moses to craft is one of those clear Messianic illustrations that Jesus Himself  referrs  to in John 3:14-15. But there's another tricky aspect of the bronze snake; the Second Commandment forbids the carving of any graven image. Is God asking Moses to violate His own Commandment? It would seem to the skeptic that God's contradicting Himself, so let's take a closer look at the Commandment.       Exodus 20:4-6. "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth below. You shall not bow down to worship them for I, The Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the father to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing love to a thousand generations to those who love me a

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS   My Pastor, Brad Schmidt of City Church Fort  Lauderdale,  gave  a rousing sermon on the transformative nature of the gospel (see the link below - I encourage you to listen). Speaking on how the Ten Commandments fits into the Gospel, he made what I think is a significant statement by showing how the First Commandment, "You shall have no other gods before Me", is broken each time you break Commandments 2 through 10. It's true.    He set it up thus; When you put someone or something ahead of God, you are saying, "You are not the source of my life." And, with the other Commandments, you are saying God is not the source of whatever the Commandment is pointing to. I expanded on this in the sermon notes section of my bulletin.  So  let's have a look.     If you break the 1st Commandment, you're saying, "God is not the source of my  life ."     2nd Commandment, "You shall make no graven im