Joh 16- 5 sitater
Joh 16-5 Talsmannen – Sitater
Gordon Brownville's Symbols of the Holy Spirit tells about the great Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first to discover the magnetic meridian of the North Pole and to discover the South Pole. On one of his trips, Amundsen took a homing pigeon with him. When he had finally reached the top of the world, he opened the bird's cage and set it free. Imagine the delight of Amundsen's wife, back in Norway, when she looked up from the doorway of her home and saw the pigeon circling in the sky above. No doubt she exclaimed, "He's alive! My husband is still alive!"
So it was when Jesus ascended. He was gone, but the disciples clung to his promise to send them the Holy Spirit. What joy, then, when the dovelike Holy Spirit descended at Pentecost. The disciples had with them the continual reminder that Jesus was alive and victorious at the right of the Father. This continues to be the Spirit's message.
Thomas Lindberg.
Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in him.
Augustine, The Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Kol 3, 15-17 Og la Guds* fred råde i hjertene deres! Den ble dere også kalt til i ett legeme. Og vær takknemlige!
16 La Kristi ord bo rikelig i* dere i all visdom, slik at dere underviser og formaner hverandre med salmer og lovsanger og åndelige sanger, og ved nåden** synger i deres hjerter for Herren.
17 Og hva dere enn gjør i ord eller gjerning, gjør alt i Herren Jesu navn, og takk Gud Faderen ved Ham.
Ef 5, 18-21 Og bli ikke fulle av vin, for det fører bare til utskeielser, men bli fylt av Ånden, 19 slik at dere taler til hverandre med salmer og lovsanger og åndelige viser, idet dere synger og spiller i deres hjerter for Herren 20 og alltid takker Gud Faderen for alle ting i vår Herre Jesu Kristi navn 21 og underordner dere hverandre i Guds* frykt.
Speaking to a large audience, D.L. Moody held up a glass and asked, "How can I get the air out of this glass?" One man shouted, "Suck it out with a pump!" Moody replied, "That would create a vacuum and shatter the glass." After numerous other suggestions Moody smiled, picked up a pitcher of water, and filled the glass. "There," he said, "all the air is now removed." He then went on to explain that victory in the Christian life is not accomplished by "sucking out a sin here and there," but by being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Today in the Word, September, 1991, p. 30.
He was one of the greatest rulers in African history and the creator of modern Ethiopia. Born in 1844, he was captured during an enemy raid and held prisoner for 10 years. Escaping, Menelik II declared himself head of the province of Shewa. He began conquering neighboring kingdoms and developed them into modern Ethiopia with himself as emperor. When Italy tried to take over Ethiopia Menekil's army met and crushed the Italians at the Battle of Aduwa. This victory, as well as his efforts to modernize Ethiopia (schools, telephones, railroads), make Menekil world-famous. The emperor had one little known eccentricity. Whenever he was feeling ill, he would eat a few pages of the Bible, insisting that this always restored his health. One day in December, 1913, recovering from a stroke and feeling extremely ill, he had the entire book of Kings torn from an Egyptian edition of the Bible, ate every page of it--and died.
Source Unknown.
