Study Desk

This is a list of how Jesus came all the way from Abraham and down through King David (because it was said long ago God's Boy would come through David):

This all happened because a prophet had already said,

"There will be wailin' and weepin'. Rachel will cry for her kids and won't take to any comfortin' by anyone because they are all gone."

God takes mighty good care of those folks who are hurtin' and sad because he's the only one who can offer 'em comfort.

God takes mighty good care of those who are put down because of their belief in him and the way they live, for their reward is his green, eternal pasture.

God's gonna take real special care of those of you who are insulted, spit upon, and talked wrongly about because of me.

Just smile and go on because your reward will be more than worth it in heaven. They did the same things to the cowboys who worked for God so many years ago.

I know this because I do what my boss tells me to and my cowboys who ride for me do what I tell them to. If I give 'em word to ride hard west, they do it. If I give 'em word to come back, they do it."

Then Jesus told the brand inspector, "Go on back to your hacienda. Your young cowboy will be healed because you believed I could do it." Come to find out, the young cowboy was healed at that exact hour.

You need to head off and ponder what this means, 'I want mercy, not sacrifice.' Because I haven't come to round up the gentle cattle, but I have come to gather the mavericks."

When he saw all the mavericks, he felt sorry for them because they were shunned and starved, like cattle without a brand and no rancher to take care of 'em.

Because of me, you will be taken before governors, presidents, and later, even to those who aren't Jews, so that you can tell them about who I am.

Everyone will hate you because of me, but if you stay in the saddle and ride with me, you will be saved in the end.

Because I have come to turn 'a boy against his dad, a girl against her mom, a daughter-in-law against her husband's mother—

Anyone who welcomes one of my cowboys gets the same reward as the cowboy who rides for me and anyone who welcomes an honest man because he is honest will get an honest man's bounty.

And if someone so much as lifts a finger to help one of my cowboys because they ride for me, I'm tellin' you straight, he will get rewarded."

'We rode the rough stock for you and got bucked off, but you didn't cheer because you wanted to see us rope. We roped fast and quick, but you didn't clap because no one got bucked off.'

This was because the great cowboy Isaiah had seen the future when he wrote,

But when the religious know-it-alls heard them ask this, they said, "Jesus can only do this because he has Satan's power!"

Even the Queen of Sheba, who didn't even know who God was, came and asked Solomon where he got his great wisdom. She listened to him and believed. She will rise up and not speak favorably of all of y'all when Judgment Day comes because you do not believe or change after you've heard the truth. Now one greater and wiser than Solomon is standing here and you still refuse to believe.