David believed in eternal security.
Psalms 23:6 KJV Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
David was content in Christ (LORD).
Psalms 23:1 KJV The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
I have never felt comfortable calling any man other than my God and dad 'father.' Just call me Andrew if you are a brother or sister in Christ.
Matthew 23:8 KJV But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
Matthew 23:9 KJV And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Matthew 23:10 KJV Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
There are Jews who are not entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
There are Jews who will receive greater damnation.
There are Jews who are children of Hell.
Matthew 23:13 KJV But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Matthew 23:14 KJV Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Matthew 23:15 KJV Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Part of my daily goal is to be the antithesis of this, even though I can be hypocritical at times. But not without the Lord lovingly smacking me upside the head, of course.
Matthew 23:27 KJV Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28 KJV Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Who killed the prophets and who killed Jesus. Do not dance around the truth.
Matthew 23:31 KJV Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Here is your answer. Is such a place still your greatest ally?
Matthew 23:37 KJV O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
1948 or not, it's still a desolate place without Christ.
Matthew 23:38 KJV Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
No one escapes the damnation of Hell except through Jesus Christ, period!
Matthew 23:33 KJV Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
He who sheds and rejects the sacrificial blood of Christ is guilty of shedding such righteous blood. If they killed Christ, they will kill His servants.
Matthew 23:34 KJV Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
Yes, Jesus is speaking to the Jews who have rejected Him.
Matthew 23:35 KJV That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
Not all Jews are damned to Hell. Some have been saved throughout all of time, and some will be saved in the end.
Matthew 23:39 KJV For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
All people should be treated with dignity and respect, even if they are not Christian.
Genesis 23:7 KJV And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Reading from the book before an audience is not new.
Nehemiah 13:1 KJV On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God forever;
Should we not ask our rulers the same questions?
Nehemiah 13:11 KJV Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
Father, thank you for your Holy Book that teaches us about eternal salvation with you through Jesus Christ our Lord. In Jesus' Name, Amen.