Common Sense Reborn

The Righteous One, Part 1

⁵“For the time is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line. He will be a King who rules with wisdom. He will do what is just and right throughout the land. ⁶And this will be his name: ‘The Lord Is Our Righteousness.’ In that day Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety.” (Jeremiah 23:5-6)

For the last few weeks, I have been sharing verses that really jumped out to me from the Book of Jeremiah, especially the consistent verses about taking care of foreigners, orphans, and widows. I had just reread Jeremiah for our neighborhood Men’s Bible Study. We are reading through the entire Holy Bible following the Common Sense REBORN: Deployed reading plan. This is a 9-month reading plan that guides you through the current Christian Canon by reading roughly five chapters of the Old Testament a day, and just one chapter of the New Testament once you read the Book of Genesis. We should have completed our journey by now, as we committed to the reading plan last June, however, we have paused the pace of our reading several times to let everyone catch up (including myself). Today, I have started reading the Book of Daniel, which is one of my favorites, and I am seeing many future CSR posts coming out of that reading in the next week. But for the next two days, maybe three, I want to close out Jeremiah and share the last few nuggets I gleamed from that prophetic book.

The next few posts on this platform will highlight Jeremiah’s prophecy of the coming Messiah, the “righteous descendant from King David’s line”. History teaches us that this is Jesus Christ, whose earthly father, Joseph, was a direct descendant from King David. Jesus ruled with the ultimate wisdom, and everything Jesus did during His time on earth in human form was just and right. His teachings, which were recorded through all four Gospels, set the standard for Christians to follow and, ultimately, changed the world. Only Matthew recorded a sermon Jesus gave, famously titled “The Sermon on the Mount”. This sermon raised the bar for how to treat each other and has been studied for the last two thousand years. My home church, Compassion Christian, is currently in a series looking at the words of Jesus in that sermon, and the message from last Sunday on anger is one that I feel this entire country needs to hear right now. So I am posting it below, and ending this post early so you can use your extra time to listen to these wise words and do some internal analysis to see if Jesus was serious about how we are to handle anger, are we, as Christians, living up to that standard in our lives right now?