310 - "The Real Battle Is Within Me" Matthew 27:32-66; Mark 15:21-47; Luke 23:26-56; John 19:17-42; Psalm 22

The priests couldn't heal. All these regulations. How could they even remember. 

But, Henry says: If we apply this to the spiritual leprosy of sin, 

it intimates that when we withdraw from those who walk disorderly, 

we must not count them as enemies, but admonish them as brothers. 

And I just love that thought.  The leprosy of sin---I've been made to feel that way.  Like a leper.  May I never count them as my enemy but treat them as a friend---and a friend gives admonishments, too.  

Matthew 27:51 "And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom;

 and the earth shook and the rocks were split.  

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs." Would they believe now?  He was born in silence.  He died in a silence that shook the world & reverberates to this very day.  Satan stripped of all power.  Deliverance from a Domain of Darkness.  Transfers to a New Kingdom.  Temples torn in two.  The walking dead going back home.  Empowered to serve God's Kingdom.  

"That means that the real battle now is within me, between my own urge to grasp after whatever seems necessary and the desire to give, to love others like Jesus does." 66LL

PHOTO: Standing on the brink here. Remembering C.S. Lewis' words: "Where did all of this beauty come from?" Will I believe now? Even looking at the leprosy of sin. Delivered from that domain. And when I withdraw from the disorderly, what do I do with them?