The Garden loved His presence. Mount Sinai? Scarred to this day from His presence.

Oh the difference sin makes!

We are not facing death or jail time for witnessing. Yet we can not be compelled to do so for fear of a dirty look from someone.

How we have failed our God, our Savior by allowing them to shut us up, shut us in.

People are dying for Christ can we live for Him?

Israel messed up, Moses got angry, and the Israelites had to drink the golden calf

Jehoida, a high priest, was given a gift and a chance to fix his nation. Did he stay quiet? Did he stay out of politics? No he stoo for what was right and fixed his nation.

Yes that king Nebuchadnezzar has a 7 year come to Jesus meeting. He does come to Jesus and sees that there is One God and that God is the Lord Jehovah.

Jesus talking to 4 of the disciples in the book of Mark, tells them what the future holds.

The God of the Red Sea parting? our God.

The God that delivered Peter from a locked jail? our God.

The God whose Gospel had 3000 saved at Pentecost? Our God and the same Gospel we should have.

If He and His Gospel have not changed, then we must be the problem.

A title, A name yet, He was of Nazareth, and they rejected Him there. Blind Bartimaeus heard Jesus of Nazareth was passing by and he cried out even louder to get His attention.

Funny how one person can elicit such different reactions from people.