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Me:\u00a0 Prodigal, what are you doing all by yourself in this barren rocky place?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Well, I was deep in thought with all that we have been talking about lately.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Anything specific that you have been thinking of?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Just who Jesus was?<\/p>\n

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There is a quote from Napoleon who expressed beautiful as someone who has lead people.\u00a0 Napoleon expressed these thoughts while he was exiled on the rock of St. Helena.\u00a0 He called Count Montholon to his side and asked him, “Can you tell me who Jesus Christ was?”\u00a0 The count declined to respond.\u00a0 Napoleon answered:<\/p>\n

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Well then, I will tell you.\u00a0 Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend?\u00a0 Upon force.\u00a0 Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him…..I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all these were\u00a0men, and I am a man; none else is like Him; Jesus Christ was more than man….I have inspired multitudes with such an enthusiastic devotion that they would have died for me….but to do this it was necessary that I should be visible present with the electric influence of my looks, my words, of my voice.\u00a0 When I saw men and spoke to them, I lighted up the flame of self-devotion in their hearts…Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.\u00a0 Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother.\u00a0 He asks for the human heart;\u00a0 He will have it entirely to Himself.\u00a0 He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted.\u00a0 Wonderful!\u00a0 In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ.\u00a0 All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable, supernatural love toward Him.\u00a0 This phenomenon is unaccountable; it is altogether beyond the scope of man’s creative powers.\u00a0 Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range.\u00a0 This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it.\u00a0 This it is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This comes from a ruler of men, nations and leaders.\u00a0 This is the words of a man who has known power and devotion.\u00a0 Christ is still real.\u00a0 He is still seeking my heart.\u00a0 He is still seeking your heart.\u00a0 Does he have it?<\/p>\n

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Isaiah 30:21<\/p>\n

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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