የክርስቶስ መዐዛ The Aroma of Christ

" Enoch walked with God , and he was not,for God took him." (Gen. 5:24 ESV) "Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God ." (Gen. 6:9 ESV) "For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation , fell asleep..."(Acts 13:36 ESV) Jesus Prayed to the Father: " I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do ." (John 17:4 ESV) Paul the apostle wrote: "For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing ." (2 Timothy 4:6-8 ESV) "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which

In a Sunday Bible study session at a small Church in Piazza, the center of Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian Bible teacher,  Menelik Asfaw,   was vehemently expounding the preeminence of Love. It has been quite a while, about fifteen years ago, but I still remember his teachings quite vividly. He taught from the 13th chapter of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. I remember him drawing zeros for every attribute the apostle Paul described between verses one and three, beginning with the word: "IF." That is, "If I speak in the tongues of men (0) and of angels (0) but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers (0), and understand all mysteries (0) and all knowledge (0), and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains (0), but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have (0), and if I deliver up my body to be burned (0) but have not love, I gain nothing." I remember him adding zeros after zeros on the blackboard b