The Gooch Lane church of Christ is a group of people in Madison, Alabama seeking to study the Bible and put God’s teachings into practice. We’d love to have you join us for Bible study and worship.
All in Pride
The inspired wise man who wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes said: “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…a time to love and a time to hate” (3:1,8a). Most of us probably have a pretty negative view of hate. We think of it as a bad emotion. But in and of itself, hate is not any better or worse than love. Both love and hate have proper objects, they are both appropriate feelings to have toward certain things at certain times.
I’ve been reading the first few books of the Bible, and a set of phrases stuck out to me like they never had before. These seem to be used mostly in the early parts of the Bible, but at some point seem to have dropped out of use later on in time. It comes in a few different forms, but they all are used to describe death: “to be gathered to your people” (Abraham in Genesis 25:8; Ishmael in Genesis 25:17; Isaac in Genesis 35:29; Jacob in 49:29, 33; Aaron in Numbers 20:24, 26; Moses in Numbers 27:13, 31:2, and Deuteronomy 32:50; Joshua’s generation in Judges 2:10; Josiah in 2 Kings 22:20), “to lie down with your fathers” (Jacob in Genesis 47:30; Moses in Deuteronomy 31:16; David in 2 Samuel 7:12), “to join the generation of your fathers” (Psalm 49:19).
The foundation for the life of the Christian is Jesus Christ. We must indeed believe He is the Christ the Son of God, and that faith must lead us to obey Him and to pattern our lives after Him.
And what kind of example did He leave for us to follow?
