Week in Review 4-22-24 - Happy Passover, State of World Affairs, Chess Studies
[Apr 21, 2024]
(5 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcarlFcYPE

Persecuted, Yet Peaceful
MAY 1, 2023

If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
Luke 9:23

Recommended Reading: John 16:31-33
One of Jesus’ strongest admonitions to those who would be His disciples came when He told them to take up their cross daily (Luke 9:23). In the Roman world, the cross was a symbol of death. Jesus’ words were a warning: following Him might result in death.

Not until the night of Jesus’ arrest, when He was alone with His disciples for the Passover meal, did Jesus expand on His earlier words and provide them with comfort (John 14–16). He told them that the world would hate them when He was gone because they hated Him first. If they persecuted Him, they would persecute them (John 15:18-21). But He also told them, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). His peace—that is, the peace that comes from knowing and trusting Him (Philippians 4:6-7)—would be their peace in a world that would reject them.

We don’t know exactly what the future holds for Christians. But we know who does know. We can trust Him to keep us “until that Day” (2 Timothy 1:12).

Peace rules the day when Christ rules the mind.
Unknown

Indeed! Personal Accounts of the Resurrection Story: The Emmaus Road
APRIL 22, 2023

And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
Luke 24:32

Recommended Reading: John 21:1-8
The Gospel is the Good News. But good news is most impactful in the face of bad news. Never was there a clearer example of good news cancelling out bad news than in the story of the Emmaus road.

The disciples in Jerusalem had been overwhelmed with the bad news of Jesus’ death. Many who had been in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover were returning to their homes with heavy hearts. Two such disciples were walking the seven miles from Jerusalem to Emmaus when they met another man they didn't know. This man seemed to be unaware of the events surrounding Jesus in Jerusalem. But as they broke bread together, He gave them good news: Everything that had happened was just as the Old Testament had foretold. And their eyes were opened to see that it was Jesus speaking to them!

There is no better news to be had than what is learned by meeting with Jesus and understanding His Word. Make it your daily practice to meet with Him.

[Christ] is figured in the law, foretold in the prophets, and fulfilled in the gospel.
Henry Smith

https://www.dailywire.com/news/yale-hosts-jew-hating-white-hating-speaker-on-second-night-of-passover

34 rockets were fired at Israeli CIVILIANS today — on Passover — by #DemocRATS supported terrorists in Lebanon — with the backing of Iran.
https://twitter.com/AdamMilstein/status/1644071430697504768
Each attack constitutes a war crime.