Be not afraid : $b Stories from the New Testament — John Shaqi
Be not afraid : $b Stories from the New TestamentShaw, Catharine
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Be not afraid : $b Stories from the New Testament
Shaw, Catharine
Bible stories, English -- New Testament -- Juvenile literature
"I am the Door: by Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved."
And Jesus shows us what to do and what to avoid, if we want to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven.
He says: "Enter ye in at the Strait Gate: for wide is the gate, and
broad is the way, that leadeth unto destruction, and many there be
which go in thereat because strait is the Gate, and narrow is the way,
which leadeth unto Life, and few there be that find it."
The Broad Way, looking so easy and attractive at first, is the way of
sin, and leads downwards to destruction. The gate is wide open, and so
tempting.
The Narrow Way leads upwards, to Everlasting Life.
The entrance to it is narrow and strait, and the path needs courage and
perseverance to walk in it bravely; but at the end there are "pleasures
for evermore," and no more pain or sorrow or death, but Eternal Life!
St. Paul says "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall give me at
that day."
Shall we not accept Him Who is Himself the Way? He is the Way, all
along the path, let it be smooth or rough. He is the Truth, and will
never deceive us. He is the Life, and in Jesus Christ it is reserved in
Heaven for us.
V. The Last Supper
The Jewish Feast of the Passover drew near, and our dear Lord sent two
of His disciples to prepare for it. He told them they were to go to a
certain house in Jerusalem and they would find an upper room furnished;
and there they were to make ready to eat the Passover, as all other
Jewish men did at this season.
It will help us very much to understand this last supper of our Lord
and Saviour if we go back and recall the circumstances of the first
Passover supper fourteen hundred years before.
We read in the 12th of Exodus: "It is a night to be much observed unto
the Lord, for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that
night of the Lord to be observed of all the Children of Israel in their
generations."
You may remember that the children of Jacob had gone from Canaan into
Egypt to buy food in a time of famine.
There they found their brother Joseph, whom they had sold as a slave,
who now was the greatest lord in Pharaoh's kingdom.
Joseph was very kind to his brothers, and Pharaoh welcomed them and
their father Jacob to stay in the land, and be nourished there.
But by and by there arose a king who did not remember Joseph, and he
began to put burdens on these Children of Israel the Pharaohs, one
after another, making them into slaves, till at last their bondage was
so cruel that they turned to the Lord their God, and cried to Him to
deliver them.
He raised up Moses; and at length there came a night—that wonderful
night—when the whole multitude of the Children of Israel were delivered
right out of Egypt!
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