July 21, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
NOT A GREAT CITY NOR A GRAND CATHEDRAL OR TEMPLE BUT A HUMBLE MOUNTAIN
“And when He has spoken these things, while they yet beheld, He was taken up: and a cloud received Him out of their sight.”
Acts 1: 9, A.V. (Read verses 10-12).
“At the place of His ascension, Jesus chose the spot so often hallowed by His presence while He dwelt among men.”
“Not Mount Zion, the place of David’s city, not Mount Moriah, the temple site, was to be thus honored. There [in these man-honored places] Christ has been mocked and rejected. There the waves of mercy, still returning in a stronger tide of love, had been beaten back by hearts as hard as rock. Thence Jesus, weary and heart-burdened, had gone forth to find REST IN THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.”