{"id":2970,"date":"2019-04-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2019-04-13T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T22:07:21","slug":"youre-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/youre-in-the-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re in the Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/zp5z4-ac83db?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/zp5z4-ac83db?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>Some time ago a worldwide survey was done throughout the world on recognizable symbols that had some interesting results<\/u>.<\/strong> <u>The Olympic symbol of the five linked rings<\/u> was recognized by 92% of the people of the world. <\/p>\n<p><u>The McDonald\u2019s golden arches<\/u> and <u>the Shell Oil shell<\/u> were recognized by 88% of those who were surveyed. <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The Christian cross<\/u> was recognized by only 54% of the people of the world. <\/strong>Many conclusions can be drawn from this. One conclusion is that the Olympics, and the people at McDonald\u2019s and Shell are <u>better missionaries <\/u>than we Christians are. <\/p>\n<p><u>The 17th century Dutch Master Rembrandt painted a Crucifixion with Jesus bathed in white<\/u>. At the foot of the cross are Mary and John. <em><u>In the corner of the painting is Rembrandt himself. Rembrandt was reminding himself that by his own sins he too was responsible for the painful death of his Savior<\/u>. <br \/><\/em><br \/><strong><em>Jesus spent 12,045 days on this earth. <\/em><\/strong><u>The four Gospels only tell us about 100 days of his life<\/u>. <strong><em>Yet all four Gospels give us a detailed look at the last week of Jesus\u2019 life.<\/em><\/strong> The early Christian community demanded it. This is why today\u2019s Gospel is so detailed and so long (Luke 22:14 \u2013 23:56).<\/p>\n<p><u>Every detail of Jesus\u2019 Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem he had worked out beforehand<\/u>. He did not just hop on a donkey and go for a ride. It was obvious he had contacted the owners and made an arrangement. Jesus even had a password: <em>\u201cThe Master has need of it.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Today is the only time Jesus encourages the people to salute him as king. All the other times he disappears or goes to the mountains. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus\u2019 entrance into Jerusalem is an act of supreme bravado. This is High Noon! There is a price on his head. He is an outlaw wanted Dead or Alive! The posse was out looking for him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For us Christians the cross has remained the symbol of our faith. <strong><em><u>A wise person has said that the cross reveals people\u2019s hatred for God and God\u2019s love for people<\/u>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Believing that Christ died<\/u> \u2013 <strong>Is History.<\/strong><br \/><u>Believing that Christ died FOR ME<\/u> \u2013 <strong>That\u2019s Salvation!<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Many people throughout history may be worthy<\/u> \u2013 Of Admiration<br \/><strong><u>Only Jesus is worthy<\/u> \u2013 <u>Of Adoration<\/u><\/strong><u><br \/><\/u><br \/><em>You and I need to borrow a brush from Rembrandt and paint our faces onto the Crucifixion picture. You and I had more to do with the Crucifixion than we are willing to admit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some time ago a worldwide survey was done throughout the world on recognizable symbols that had some interesting results. The Olympic symbol of the five linked rings was recognized by 92% of the people of the world. The McDonald\u2019s golden arches and the Shell Oil shell were recognized by 88% of those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1554061576_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/weekly-messages\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Weekly Messages<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; Some time ago a worldwide survey was done throughout the world on recognizable symbols that had some interesting results. The Olympic symbol of the five linked rings was recognized by 92% of the people of the world. The McDonald\u2019s golden arches and the Shell Oil shell were recognized by 88% of those who&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}