Panem et Circensus
Last week we talked about the “Strength Through Joy” strategy of food and cheap entertainment that the Nazis used between 1932 and 1939 for propaganda purposes. But as the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 1:9 and 1 Corinthians 10:13, people down through the years have struggled with the same temptations, over and over again. Roman emperors used the coliseum games for “Panem et Circensus,” Latin for “Bread and Circuses” to have continuous parties which desensitized the populous to the corruption of the rulers. And even in our current society, the Apostle Peter warns that satan himself uses games and entertainment to DISTRACT us from God's purposes for each of us. Let's discuss.
Why did God create music?
Jesus called Himself the LIGHT of the world. Genesis 1:3-4 says that light was one of 4 things that God created on Day 1. So when Job, who testified to events that happened to him 500 years after the Great Flood, 2,000 years after CREATION, when Job said that God told him that He laid the foundation of the earth and all the stars of the morning broke out in SONG....apparently music had already been created. What Day of Creation was this? And what role does music play in our daily lives TODAY? In what circumstances does God use MUSIC to help us? Let's check it out....
You know where I am.
NOTHING is hidden from God. Nothing.
Every action, every word, every thought!
And yet....knowing everything about us, KNOWING our faults....He actually went to the cross for us. Suffered HORRIBLY! Yet, He proved His power to help us by actually RISING from the dead!
Whoo-whoo!
Let discuss this God who KNOWS us.
Valley of Wailing
The Israelites were supposed to cleanse the Promised Land of the horrific and barbaric practices of child sacrifice, but within a few hundred years, they were indulging in the SAME behavior, and only a stone's throw from the Sacred Temple. The Hinnom Valley was also a place where the city trash was burned and Jesus used that location to describe hell. Let’s examine.
God, It’s YOUR fault!
In Genesis 3, when God asked Adam if Adam had disobeyed the one rule He had given him, Adam replied that, “It was the woman You gave me....”. So right from the BEGINNING, mankind has tried to blame God for their own disobedience, for all the problems and sufferings that they are experiencing.
But why am I so miserable? Is God being cruel? Does God actually care what we are going thru? Let's look at some historical figures who had direct encounters with their Creator.
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