Of Jesus and Long Haired Prostitutes

[Keith]

Thanks SuperJew. It definitely causes the reader to think and evaluate their own situation. Hopefully, it will also fill his/her heart with gratitude, thanksgiving and worship... It did for me.

[Dad Ernie]

Greetings All,

Two women with alabaster boxes. One to anoint the Lord's head, the other to wash his feet. The one to anoint His head was to prepare him for His death:

Mark 14:3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

4937 suntribo {soon-tree'-bo}

from 4862 and the base of 5147; TDNT - 7:919,1124; v

AV - bruise 3, break 2, broken to shivers 1, brokenhearted + 2588 1,

break in pieces 1; 8

1) break, to break in pieces, shiver

2) to tread down

2a) to put Satan under foot and (as a conqueror) trample on him

2b) to break down, crush

2b1) to tear one's body and shatter one's strength

Isn't it just amazing how "words mean something". It was at the cross that Jesus crushed the head of Satan as foretold to Eve 4,000 years prior.

Blessings,

Dad Ernie

[yomotalking]

SJ,

That is an amazing post, and I just want to copy something that someone else wrote.

"No sinner can be made to weep by a mere cold formal sight of his sins. The portrayal of Sin can never of itself produce penitential tears. It is only when the sins are seen under the soft, melting light of infinite pity and love, that the heart is broken, and the tears flow. Law may reveal sin, but nothing in the universe except love will make a man hate his sin."

I don't know who the author of this is, but I think it is very lovely, and it shows God's heart towards us.

Yomo.