Dear, Brother Martin, I was most pleased to see you commenting on this website once again, to my knowledge it is almost two months since your last post which was a courageous witness to the present reality of the state of the church today, a post that left me feeling concerned for your well-being. So to set this thing up this way means that he cant see a metaphor. We are already a lost and rebel brood. Let the blood of Christ be venerated whenever the body of Christ is venerated. Or to change the language just a wee bit, God himself, the one who sits on the throne, and the Lamb are the temple, the focal point, the mediating place. All around the throne on that day because under the terms of this new covenant God has made this righteousness that we need available to all who believe because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. There is a new creation. Did you notice the line in Revelation 14:11? He was still a pious, Jewish monotheist, but he had been snookered (he thought) once and now he wasnt going to talk himself into believing that Jesus was back after all. When others flee from God they do a lot of drugs and have a lot of sex. And Thou hast fulfilled Thy promise, for Thou art righteous (Nehemiah 9:7-8, emphasis mine). He came to die. Now there was a whole process for doing that through pagan temples that we wont go into, but what he was doing was redeeming you. He once gave an address called Atheists are fools, and agnostics are cowards. Now by and large that is not a great way to win friends and influence people, but there is a sense in which this psalm begins: Fools say in their hearts, There is no God. That is so out of line with contemporary perceptions. But, of course, coming as he did from Asia, he didnt read books the way I would read a book. Some were repulsed by him because even if they did see the light, they were ashamed in his presence and preferred the darkness to the light. Do you hear those images? Moses feels terribly alone, let down by his own brother. He said, Where do I start?. And we will so be transformed in this beatific vision that we will know experientially what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves. October 8, 2022 How is it possible to think of God loving us by sending his Son to get killed? The regional super powerthe Assyrians at some points in time, the Babylonians at others, the Hittites at othersthey would arrange an agreement, a covenant. Why? Its basically a room three times as long as it is wide. This is barracks-room humor. But now this new heaven and new earth (as we will see in the following verses) is untainted by any of the residue of the sin of Genesis 3. The house that is strongly built on rock endures. There are just two houses. The Holy Trinity has mercifully provided a corrective for every blasphemous heresy, if we will but seek for it in the Bible. Let those who do right continue to do right. There is the culmination of this righteousness. Thats a promise. No one can take my life from me. In Acts 2:38, Peter declared, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remissions of sins In his sermon, Peter emphasized that it was through Jesus that a mans sins were forgiven. The only explanation is that it is from God. Ive never lost a rerun. In other words, it is completely unlike what a Gospel is in the New Testament. Everybodys in the other one; youre either wheat or weeds. The name John Newton might mean something to you if you saw the film on William Wilberforce, Amazing Grace. You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. How can a survivor like Vizental pronounce forgiveness? Its probably very old. Bound up with this are paternity suits. After two or three generations, what they remembered of Gods kindness in the pastof how he had spared them, how he had secured them, how he had provided for all of their needswas forgotten, and they became virtually indifferentiable from the pagans all around them. Put yourselfso far as it is possiblein Thomass place. But in the ancient world, redemption language was used pretty commonly. The chaff goes: rootless, lifeless, fruitless, useless. If you dont recognize me, then you cant be sons of God. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known. That is to say, the righteousness of God that transcends the ages, the very character of God, his perfect righteousness, has now been disclosed or made known not in the framework of that old law-covenant with its sacrificial and its structures and so on. This does not mean the kind of cringing fear that a whipped cur has when you pick up a newspaper, knowing that youre an arbitrary and cruel master who gets some sort of cheap glee out of scaring the poor little thing to death. I think that one of the reasons that we find it hard in the West to visualize this is because of our judicial system. It would take too long in any case. Its just molecules bumping into molecules.. . So God has disclosed himself in revelation. Human beings were made in the image of God. So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. One of his best was, Youre not what you think you are, but what you think, you are. Isnt that what the book of Proverbs says? Now we hear that expression today, and it is not powerful anymore. Thats what a lot of people think that sin is, just breaking a rule. He wants in effect all animal life to have so far as its possible to work out at all exactly the kind of rights that human beings have because after all were genetically the same stuff. I was born in Canada, but my parents were both born in the UK. All have turned away, they have together become worthless, worthless in the sense of being right before this God, being thoroughly God-centered. And if he ever says, You fool, tonight your soul will be required of you, you die. They are like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not witherwhatever they do prospers (Psalm 1:3). I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. It can go up or down a bit, but it is not a distilled product where you can control the amount of alcohol. And youre not supposed to commit murder. In fact, the people have already been drowned in forms of idolatry for countless years. But now apart from the law, in the light of all this sin and idolatry he has described in the previous two-and-a-half chapters, the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify., But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. And so from your vantage point, Nicodemus, you really dont see very much. No longer will there be any curse. And how many galaxies are there? Thats all a judge is. Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. So this text says that the righteous person learns to think Gods thoughts after him. 1 Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven (Matthew 6:1). Christ is the fianc, and the church is his fiance waiting for the final consummation, the final union, the marriage supper of the Lamb. No, no. Even in that scene in the middle of the night where God puts himself under a kind of covenant vow to look after his people, God himself takes the initiative again and again. The righteousness or justice of God is to be the guiding principle for the people of God. This image is saying, This is now the wine of Gods wrath poured out full strength. Are the righteous those who avoid the counsel and the patterns of life of rebels and ungodly people? Thats why if the soldiers wanted to finish you off for any reason a little faster what they would do is just come along and smash your shin bones. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. Where does that come from? And much of the New Testament is given over to unpacking precisely that point. Why does Jesus even use this sort of language. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will be destroyed. Q Just six numbers. God takes the initiative in Genesis 22 to provide a lamb. Hes the God who writes his own agreements, but here again his grace is spectacularly displayed. One writer has entitled his book The Selfish Gene, in which he argues that because of the way we have developed along evolutionary lines, we have genes that protect us. The change of heart has come so that we want to please the Lord, and we are eager to find out what pleases him. When I fled from God I didnt do any of those things; my way of fleeing was to get stupid. 5 See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. In due course God raised up a man named Moses. Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. . For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. If you see what is still in store for the future, that you have already received in part by the down payment of the Spirit who does strengthen your moral resolve and gives you vistas of a new heaven and a new earth, how can you possibly be locked in to the agonizing, painful, limited concerns of a world that finally will pass away? What He purposed to do was righteous and just. He sustains both. So Paul talks about this new humanity that forms because of what Christ has done on the crossall given by grace, received by faith, in order to bring peace and to do good works as we are strengthened by God himself. He will be forbearing. But then as the years go by and the moral tide swings up and down, it is horrendous to see how much damage and destruction are done, and God still is forbearing because he promises to keep his covenant. What giving Jesus cost the Father: You who are parents, would you. Nevertheless, even at a superficial fly-pass, you begin to see what Jesus is on about. A lot of the argument in Galatians is parallel to the argument in Romans: what justification is, what the cross achieves. But its only where theres a confluence of streams, not intermittent water, with a guaranteed water supply that you have trees whose leaf never withers and that brings forth its fruit in its season. Then youd have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Theres one other small hint that we can pick up before we conclude what it means. I know some that do, including my wife. You dont recognize me at all. I repent. And you know what God says? If you work for Habitat for Humanity, with a decent Foundation, a lot of planning, a good engineer, and forty strong-backed volunteers, you can put up a house in a day. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord 's hand double for all her sins. We dont need a God of the gaps. And so the debate continues. It is not given on the old covenant grounds where you were supposed to be born into the nation or adopted into the nation in some sense. Its full of sinners like you and me, declared just, yes, but sinners still, not yet perfected, not even close to what we will be. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. And the tension mounts and mounts and mounts. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. Thats why, as weve seen from the beginning, what we must havewhatever else we haveis his forgiveness or we have nothing. Nathan replied to the king, Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the Lord is with you.. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived. So he was embarrassed. I dont believe it for a moment. Romans 3:25 says, God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement. Some translations say propitiation, and some say expiation, and scholars have argued about that for a long time. This is how Aaron [who is the high priest] is to enter the Most Holy Place: He must first bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. It is not as if the Father stands over against us in wrath, really angry, and dear Jesus comes along and stands over against us in love. Synonyms for loss include misplacement, mislaying, misplacing, dispossession, forfeiture, losing, disappearance, dropping, deprivation and diminution. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. Curtis Klinglehas authored several articles in the forensics field, but his real passion is for souls. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. They have their own rules of conduct, of morality. The DVD and companion leaders guide helps evangelistic study groups, small groups, and Sunday school classes make the best use of this book in group settings. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.. Through the history of the Christian church, many people have argued that the tree is a symbol here for sex, but in fact when God brings the man and woman together in this first marriage, he thinks its all very good. He wanted to be sure that the body that went into the tomb was the same as the ostensible that came out or had some sort of genuine, organic connection. He sinned against his own family: he betrayed them. Abraham!, Do not do anything to him. In context, simply means understanding the message that the writer was trying to convey to his reader. If you keep stressing the continuity, then eventually you might come out with a kind of position that Peter Singer at Princeton University adopts. The great king boasts powerfully in the book of Daniel of this Babylon: Is not this mighty Babylon that I have built? But it becomes almost a symbol for arrogance, for vaunted self-independence. Now this is a strange passage to begin with. In fact, what you discover is that all of these sacrifices are needed in some sense to indicate that death is still going to prevail because there is still so much sin even among the covenant people. In the right hand of this God, were told, is a scroll sealed with seven seals, and this scroll turns out to be the scroll that contains all of Gods purposes for judgment and blessing for the entire universe. The others saw the miracle. What he means by this is Pigs give birth to pigs; cockroaches generate cockroaches; bats generate bats; kind produces kind; flesh produces flesh. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. And it wasnt too long before I discovered that once a week or so he would go to the red-light district in town and pay his money and have his woman. Hes already favorable. Why doesnt he simply say, You are alive! or Oops, I was wrong or something more modest? He sets aside his own wrath because he is the God of love. Greed is idolatry because what you most want becomes your god. For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. It is still a decaying universe. So God sent the prophet Nathan to David with a parable that entices David to pronounce his own condemnation. The first of the long trajectories of bloody sacrifices that reach all the way down to the coming of Jesus that was announced by one who comes just before him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. And after all, this text is talking about things we should do and shouldnt do, for example, speaking the truth and getting rid of bitterness and malice. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. (Note this passage well. I said, Two. So far I was hitting on all cylinders. The little book that was mentioned earlier, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God, tries to lay out (among other things) five different ways the Bible speaks of the love of God. A lot of the physical suffering was pretty accurately depicted. In fact, its a perfect cube; the dimensions of its length, height, and width are all exactly the same. Visit the Bible online to search for words if you dont know the specific passage yourre looking for. Well come to that. None of that is in place.) Or he remembers Genesis 1: God spoke, and the world came into being; by the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. But Matthew knows that he could get down. Its been too long!The Lord has you add to the conversation through His word and command. If you are in a monarchy as in Great Britain, then you sin against the crown. I have to read you one more clip, and Im done. By and large that is not the way we think, but the Bible delights to marvel at Gods love. Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.. What God does is ordain a special class of people, namely, some priests. To make it even steeper, Paul adds another line: Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else (Acts 17:25). So he gets there. Yet he has the cheek to say, Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. At the deepest level it is exactly the truth. Thats what drove Jesus supremely: doing his Fathers will. James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. Indeed, when we say that the measure of Gods love for us is Jesus, it really means two things: You find him on occasion, for example, with a heart as big as all outdoors as he looks out on a crowd that seems leaderless and religiously empty, he calls them sheep without a shepherd, and the text says, He has compassion on them., You find him also playing with little children and setting up little children as a kind of model for what his own disciples should be. But there is a change of direction, of origin. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.. O Finding all of our supreme joy and contentment in the God who is there, disclosing himself forever and perfectly, inexhaustibly, before his own blood-bought people. This is the effect that matters so immensely, and which I cannot help observing. I am out of line with the one who designed me. Yes, I understand that. It is saying that there is no more chaos, no more destruction, no more muck and mire. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. Why does he infer so much (My Lord and my God!) from the fact that Jesus is now alive? But what it has provided is the vehicle in which God has disclosed himself again as the one who pursues his own people, provides a sacrificial structure, a vehicle in which God in his nature, his desire to forgive, his insistence that sin be punished, all be brought together until a millennium and a half later this side of the death of Jesus another writer writes a book in the New Testamentthe last part of the Bible. When Jesus was baptized, it was to fulfill all righteousness (Matthew 3:15). And that in the writing of some of the New Testament writers is called new creation. We press toward a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). Hebrews 13:2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. If righteousness and justice are the heart of the Old Testament Law, they are also at the heart of the dispute between Jesus and the scribes and Pharisees.33 At the very outset of His earthly ministry, Jesus set out to contrast His interpretation of the Old Testament teaching on righteousness with that of the scribes and Pharisees. So here is a covenantal structure, and in between Genesis 12 and 17 is another chapter that speaks of the covenant: Genesis 15. Profanity simply is the commoning on something. Youre promising too much. He takes her hand, and he says, Sue, I love you. The very nature of faith excludes boasting. Thats what Jesus means by earthly things. If you dont believe when I talk about earthly thingsthings that take place down here like the new birthhow on earth are you going to possibly believe if I start describing to you the glories of the transcendent God? At the end of the day, to understand Christianity sooner or later you must come to grips with Christianitys revelation claims. It is a fermented process, so it depends on the sugar and the temperature and the kind of berry and so on, but it is about 30 proof (15 percent alcohol). That is where your imagination will go; that is where your energy will go; that is where your heart goes. That means that we no longer have any access to them. No sweat. Historically, Christians have often called such good things the work of common grace, that is, grace that God gives commonly to all kinds of people. Find more similar words at wordhippo.com! If youre really, really honest, you never quite fit the good way. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. When he was a young man, Moses did wonder about the possibility of starting a revolution and leading the people out. Listen, friends, I may not be able to explain all the mechanics of new birth. The church is full of sin. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of Godchildren born not of natural descent [its not just natural children who are in view], nor of human decision [from sexual intercourse] or a husbands will [assuming hes taking some sort of primary role in the conception], but born of God. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. Maybe we got the wrong tomb; it was dark when they put him in. Then Moses said to him, If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. (Exodus 33:15), What any people must have is the presence of the living God. The significance of the 12,000 and the 144: apocalyptic loves symbolism, and it is calling to mind the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles. And he remembers that indeed in the book of Deuteronomy back at the time of Moses there had been promise ultimately of a permanent center, so he thinks, Well, its about time. So he comes. And Jesus says, My dear Nicodemus, let me tell you the truth. And it is for our good that we recognize it, not because he is the supreme bully but because without him we wouldnt even be here. The last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Corinthians 15:2526). For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son (John 3:16). Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. He is the just one, and he is the offended party. Why should I obey God? Now instead, one of the creation order, the serpent, seduces the woman who hauls in the man, and together they defy God. But they are not imagery of nothing. That was simply presupposed. In later Judaism, there were synagogue where kids learned reading and writing and things like that. God is spectacularly great. This is God graciously, sovereignly promising something. Then you open up the pages of the New Testament, the accounts, the foundation documents of our Bible, that begin to tell us what happens in the time of Jesus. In the eighteenth century there was a very famous preacher (probably the most famous preacher in the Western world at the time) named George Whitefield. Then you couldnt push with your legs anymore, and you would suffocate in a few minutes. Or if you conceive of Jesus total reign (all authority is already his), youre in this kingdom whether you like it or not. Help us to see that when we sin you are always the most offended party but that our hope, too, is in you and the sacrifice you have provided in the person of your Son. (Psalm 51:13). According to an EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research poll released this week, almost 77% of Catholic voters believe in guardian angels, 8.7% do not, and 14.6% are not sure. Some think that each day represents an age. (Romans 3:25b26). (3) Above all, this vision shapes our worldview. The goodness of my other deeds outweighs the crime I committed. If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him lifeto those who commit sins that do not lead to death. But if you were picking up this book for the first time and read it and didnt know anything about all these debates, I suspect that your approach to this image of God language would be a little simpler. Because I pulled out more and more, there was less and less that I could think about. But I picked up the Christian references in our conversations. God deals with men on the basis of what He has revealed to them. He who has seen me has seen the Father. And there was that strange utterance from Jesus sometime back where Jesus said Before Abraham was born, I am [John 8:58]. Justice was done on the cross of Calvary. He is not the object whom we evaluate. If sin is the manifestation of our unrighteousness and we can be saved only through a righteousness not our ownthe righteousness of Christthen the ultimate sin is self-righteousness. Now he wanted the Jews forgiveness. But Paul assumes the truth of election and the possibility that some might object on the grounds that election would make God unjust. What there is initially is a massive inversion: God makes the man who loves his wife who comes from him, and together they are to be vice-regents over the created order. Your majesty, he says, somethings gone wrong upcountry. Here is a horrible picture of the most abject weakness possible. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. You dont really understand whats going on at all., Jesus, you are encouraging the impossible. About 65% of those who never attend Mass or attend less than once a year said they believe in guardian angels. Dont forget that in the ancient world just about everybody worked at handcraft or on the farm, so they were much closer to the land than we are today. Its not begun from some commitment. He loves us; it must be because were loveable.. What marvels could supplant Jesus Christ? We meet not in some garden of wax fruit and painted leaves that lies east of Eden but after the fall, after many, many deaths, now you understand the plotline of the whole Bible. They are so grotesque and barbaric. Often this instruction came through the levitical priests (Leviticus 10:11; Deuteronomy 24:8; Nehemiah 8:9; 2 Chronicles 17:7-9) or through the prophets like Moses (Deuteronomy 4:1, 5, 14; Exodus 18:20). God ordained that this sacrifice be offered to turn away Gods wrath. When we read that God is righteous or just, we are being assured that His actions toward us are in perfect agreement with His holy nature.30. I lay it down of myself. The point is that the temple in the Old Testament was the great meeting place between God and human beings. They are always right and fair. They kick off their sandals and feel the wet sand squish between their toes. Its not as if God gets to Thursday afternoon and starts saying, Oh boy, I can hardly wait until Sunday when they crack out those guitars again. Unless I put my hands in his wounds, I will not believe. That was the test. He takes the full responsibility for the fulfillment of the covenant all by himself. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you! Then he said to Thomas, Put your finger here; see my hands. In the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in Matthew 57, Jesus said, Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal [or where the stock market can erode it all]. (2) Psalm 1:2 describes the righteous positively. There was an otherness right within God himself. He doesnt go to the cross as an abstract lesson. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. And yet at the same time there are different contexts in which Gods love is spoken of. A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: If anyone worships the beast [that is, Satans own emissary] and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink of the wine of Gods fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. That old serpent then calls forth some beasts as his functionaries. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. This is what Jesus did on the cross. Your email address will not be published. He is one with God himself. Its smuggles in the assumption that we have the ability, even the right, to stand in judgment of what God has said. Constant gratitude, which the story of the cross seems to encourage, creates only weakness, childishness and dependency. None. We could start by asking why Nicodemus starts with this we. There is no indication that he has brought his students with him: My class and I together, we have come to this conclusion. Theres no hint that anybody else is there. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. In other words God does give himself a name (I am who I am. John 20:23 came at the end of Jesus earthly ministry. The Cross! Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised [i.e., Jews] by faith and the uncircumcised [i.e., Gentiles] through that same faith. He doesnt have the right to do that. So the sun and the moon not only give us our time-spans but give us the cycles of life when the gates are shut, when there is more danger and you hope for the coming of the light. By this time the Western allies had already cleaned out North Africa and had started pushing up the boot of Italy. There was a perfection of love in eternity past. What you must not lose from it in the context of Romans is the wrath of God. Here is a man after my own heart. V The war goes on, and it transpires that Bathsheba becomes pregnant; and she lets the king know. (John 3:1621). This receipt of the Holy Spirit, when Jesus breathed on them, was in preparation for what was to happen on the day of Pentecost. Do this My friends so as to remember Me.. Its awful that we hurt our friends. Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. God becomes favorable. If the crowd wont make room for him through the doorway, theyll make room for him because a bed is coming down on their heads. There is no way out. They have so much shame to hide. He designed me. And yet if you compare the stories, you also see differences. The author of Hebrews writes, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people (Hebrews 2:17). At one level you want to say that its not true. Many people have thought of the gods as pretty arbitrary, mean-spirited, and malicious. God now demonstrates his justice in sending Christ to the cross because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished. Now he does this to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus. In other words, not only by this means does God declare guilty people like you and me just (i.e., he justifies us because someone has paid for our sin), but he demonstrates his own justice while he is doing it. In his own words, he is abandoned to Jesus. It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded for me to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our timethats fulfilment. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit [wind] (John 3:8). The thing molded will not say to the molder, Why did you make me like this, will it? Shall I present my first-born for my rebellious acts, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? but who delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on his law day and night. You are already in the Most Holy Place. Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Then Ill switch to a passage in John that talks about his resurrection. He was going to have to see for himself. And in the midst of all of these promises, this one stands out, too: and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you (Genesis 12:3). And my dear Nicodemus, you cannot see the kingdom, the real power of God, and you cannot enter this kingdom unless youre born again. Are the righteous those who can be likened to a tree planted by streams of water that yields fruit in its season and whose leaf never withers? God is not a creature. Its this way or that way. There are only two ways. Let me come in from the side door. There were no jokes about crucifixion in the ancient world. There was a second front. Sometimes what God does is graciously give promises of what hes going to do so that people learn to take him at his word, to trust his word, and to look forward to what hes going to do. But originally, it was much, much broader. When the prophet Nathan is sent by God to confront King David for this cleverly concealed adultery and murder, because the king is at the end of the day an autocrat, Nathan approaches with a certain amount of care, and he tells a parable. He spoke. I provide life. He shows his mercy to generations after generation of those who loved me and keep my commandments. These alone will not do. It is a piddlely little village at this juncture. For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. Moses is called the meekest man who ever lived; he is the one who mediates this covenant; he is the hero who in his old age is organizing the nation, setting up a system of priests and judicial structure, justice, and integrity, leading the people again and again. He spent most of his life as a shepherd on the backside of the desert, but at the age of eighty he heard the voice of God to go back and lead the people out of slavery, out of Egypt. He will not quarrel or cry out; no one will hear his voice in the streets. Thats what love means. You do well Mary to study the Bible, especially the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, and the letters which are clear regarding the heart of our faith in Christ, his real presence in the Holy Eucharist, the eternal character of the revealed Word of God. The following scripture is for those who do not know, yet seek the way of truth. Angels benign or daemonic, real or comfortable imaginative fetish? Where, knowing neither compromise nor loss, Gods love and holiness in shattering grace. You bought it back and freed it from where it was. What I do on Sunday in spirituality is just for Sunday. Most table wines that people drank in the ancient world was cut. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. Even the most spectacular of our high-rise cities does not look cube like. His Bishops say nothing. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The word rendered propitiation here is two-thirds of the time actually the word used for the top of the ark of the covenant where on the Day of Atonement the blood of the bull and goat was shed precisely to turn away Gods wrath. Thus, when God judges these cities, He does so justly for they were truly wicked. In Africa Christianity changes peoples hearts. In former times there had been occasion when the soldiers had left somebody hanging there, and friends had actually managed to come along and take the person down and they had survived. The Thais love their king. Why? That is part of the language of the previous chapter. For any of us with all of our civilized behavior, put us under enough pressure and deep down in the back of our mindseven if we are disciplined enough not to let it actually escape from our mouthsare busy swearing away in our minds. Simon Guggenheim was there. So we witness the beginning of the sacrificial system as it was set up under the old covenant with God eventually promising in due course a Redeemer, someone from the Davidic line, the line of kings, set up about 1000 BC under King David. I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I hid from Him, and under running laughter. There is good seed and there are weeds, and they are both to grow until the end when there will be a final division. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Rejection of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist is a blasphemy. But today, if people believe in God at all, they find it by and large easy to believe in Gods love. In fact the opposite is downright cranky. We need to think about that just a wee bit. Then what God says in many different ways through verse after verse is this: I will not only judge the false shepherds. D Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Sealed for the day of redemption means marked out as Gods because he is already within you, he is already come as the down payment of the promised inheritance. Fifty billion years from now, if I may dare speak of eternity in the categories of time, no one will be talking about the significance of Stalin or Pol Pot, but every cup of cold water given in the name of Jesus will still be remembered because the Lord watches over the way of the righteous; the way of the wicked will perish. They have different values that they are espousing until eventually the people on the committee say to this committee member, You know, you really dont espouse our views anymore. Synonyms for consequences include results, outcomes, conclusions, corollaries, ends, reactions, by-products, product, effects and produce. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken (John 2:22). So I hope that you will open your Bible in the next few moments to John 1. And Thomas remembered that, too. Long after this chapter toward the end of the Bible, one of the writers says, Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled (Hebrews 13:4). Then the governors soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. As Peter preached, he pointed out that it was in Jesus that sins would be forgiven. Abraham was a sinner. (4) God is a talking God. There is more debate going on than is sometimes perceived. Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! It was announced at the event that new country Kazakhstan , This open and accessible rehearsal of the Synodal process is refreshing, yet frustrating! Let me end this way. For all that is in the worldthe desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessionsis not from the Father but is from the world. There is but one Creator, and he is to be distinguished from all of the created order. So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. (John 20:2425), Now this is the kind of doubt that springs from hurt. Thats not faith. So perceptions of what we even mean by king and monarch differ in different parts of the world, dont they? When a writer called Zacharia reviewed the film for the New York Times, he asked the obvious question, Why did the producer and director distort history and say what isnt true? Were sons of God. And Jesus says, Cant be. The throne of God and of the Lamb harks all the way back to the great vision of Revelation 45 mentioned in the previous session, that is, the Lamb who emerges from the throne and is the one who brings all of Gods purposes to pass because he is the lion-king. Hes completely tied down. Ultimately he became a pastor, and he wrote at one point, I am not what I want to be. He sends his Son and his rain upon the just and the unjust. Its the supreme evil. Lord Almighty, God of Israel, you have revealed this to your servant, saying, I will build a house for you. So your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. What Was the Significance of the Angels at Christmas? Part of my job takes me to many different parts of the world. He had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth. Thats what he was there for. Oh, I know that some nudist colonies are merely an excuse for rounds of orgies. Then when the law is given to Moses thats a kind of covenant, an agreement. That doesnt mean that people have suddenly reached perfection. But the whole point of the story is that that is not what God wants. Some of them want a king simply so that they can be like the pagan nations all around, all of whom have their petty kings. But he comes to Jesus. They distinguish between orthodoxy and heresy. If as a Christian you are already seen as righteous in Christ, if you have already been increasingly conformed to the likeness of Christ, you move into a new heaven and a new earth, and righteousness becomes yours without footnotes or exceptions or tendencies away or the influences of the old nature. Not one of the original architects of the great Cathedrals in Europe ever saw the finished product. TopicalBible I am sure that you have heard these illustrations where you picture somebody who is brought before a judge and the judge finds the person guilty and in some sort of administrative procedure assigns a fine of $5,000 or conversely the person is confined to five years in jail, and then the judge comes down off the bench and takes out his checkbook and writes the check for $5,000 or alternatively takes of his robe and goes to jail for five years in his place. If youre interested in such matters, Ill be glad to give you more bibliography. Thats the nature of this kingdom. I mean, theres nothing in me not to love, is there? But this is already so far removed from the storyline of Scripture that we have to rethink it again. They are a seafaring people, so their literature and their poetry is full of this. That is what may destroy us. In Romans 3, Paul points out God not only justifies sinners (that is, He declares them righteous), but He is also shown to be just (righteous) in the process: 21 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. He is not just us. When Paul gives his address to some philosophers and teachers in Athens, he tries to explain what his view of God is over against theirs. But how can God propitiate himself? (Revelation 20:910). By contrast, only 50.3% of respondents say that they believe in the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, namely that the transformed bread and wine are the Body and Blood of Christ and not symbols.. Follow Gods example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 9 For this is a word of promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. 10 And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; 11 for though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in order that Gods purpose according to His choice might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who calls, 12 it was said to her, The older will serve the younger. 13 Just as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.. It worth reflecting on the fact that the two verbs that are used are used together as a pair in only one other place within the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), namely, in the next chapter. That sacrifice of a bull and of a goat cant ever deal finally with sin? Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Its an illustration Ive sometimes used with university students. Sometimes we sin by not becoming angry because of sin. Then after sentence was passed, he was savagely beaten again. He doesnt need us. 25 Far be it from Thee to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are [treated] alike. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. But before we get to chapter 3, from 1:18 to 3:20 Pauls entire argument is designed to show how we are guilty. It would suit me to believe that their honesty, diligence and optimism in their work was unconnected with personal faith. The kinds of things that Jesus did were a cut above, and Nicodemus was not going to deny the evident. The righteousness of God and the justice of God are not secondary matters; they are primary. Jesus is in fact an astonishingly flexible preacher. God knows all there is to know about sin but not by becoming a sinner. Thats the ark of God that we spoke of in the last chapter. And we think, What sort of religion is this with its bloody animals and goats? These, too, are parts of the thing that God ordains. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people (Leviticus 26:1112). He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. And its that association that is behind this text. But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Genesis 17:110). That is why Christians speak of the Trinity: one God but somehow complex, three personsFather, Son, and Holy Spirityet one God, so united, so one in purpose and will, so all God that you cannot separate them and make three Gods. Weve got only one hour to devote to these first two chapters. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. That passage has been interpreted many different ways, as you can imagine. We are whole beings; all of them interact together. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on. The fact of the matter is that God is often presented in Scripture as being the king. The passage to which Jesus is referring, which of course Nicodemus would have picked up like that because he knew his Old Testament, is found in the fourth book of the Bible: Numbers. Christians in parts of the world where there is a lot of persecution or violence or suffering have no difficulty understanding that at all. What was the fruit? Thats only the negative side of the glory to come. So on we worked, and waited for the light. Im mentioning these details because you will see by the end of this series that all of these details are picked up later in the Bible. Supposing you know about what God wants, then what you discover is that you still dont meet those standards. Jesus answers with a kind of affirmation: It is as you say. We have to get this right, or we have no part of Christianity left. To forbid it is simply unthinkable. God, Ill give you ten percent. He owns you. He tries to short-circuit things by sleeping with somebody else. Torres told CNA that she finds it particularly hopeful that the majority of Catholic respondents have an awareness and acceptance of the supernatural.. Its not profane because youve spoken the magic word that youre not really allowed to use; only priests can say the right abracadabra. But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying: Go and tell my servant David, This is what the Lord says: Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? Where is the line between the depression and the high pressure? Nobodys is thinking in those terms. Now we pick up the account in 2 Samuel 7. I have been moving from place to place with a tent as my dwelling. The sun has made the sand warm. And it takes an enormous act of will on the part of the most cynical of scientists instead to look at it all and say, Agh, its just physics. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them. (Ezekiel 34:16). That is, they are different because God has done something new in them. And he says that in this new covenant, I will sprinkle your hearts with clean water, indicating cleaning somebody out morally. That happens on the day that is called the Day of Atonement. Meanwhile, outside theres another animal, another goat, that has been taken out into the desert to wander away. I will preserve your house, your household.. What you have to do is put yourself into the very account. God openly says, Let there be this. Let there be that. God made everything. He saw that it was very good. Later on in the Bible this point is stressed again and again. There are three: 1 John, 2 John, and 3 John. I think its the mother, as far as I know, who is doing the work and pushing the little tyke out. And then the sixth day: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind (Genesis 1:24). Then the people went into exile. Psalm 8 not only praises God for his power in creation (You have set your glory above the heavens [Psalm 8:2]) but also marvels at the fact that God has a peculiar relation with human beings, mortals: what are mere mortals that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? (Psalm 8:4). The Catholic Church has taught that nothing about this apparition is inconsistent with the faith. Youre not the one who was gang-raped! In Genesis 1, where the creation account is first given, we are told, So God created human beings in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis 1:27). And God made it all! So if someone heard Jesus saying, Destroy this temple, and in three days Ill raise it again, then maybe that could be worked into conspiracy for a capital crime, that is, destroying a temple. I believe this to be a very significant aspect of Gods righteousness. If he does save himself, Im damned. But by Gods standards, Gods holiness, he sees our rebellion, and we are all guilty before him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of Gods one and only Son. . The whole created order of which you are a part is now not working properly. CNA Staff, Jun 9, 2020 / 04:51 pm (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Oklahoma have voiced support for a ballot measure that would expand Medicaid in the state. Although so many people speak about angels, he suggested, its more difficult to believe in the Eucharist than to believe in angels.. That is to say, I cannot come before you and say, I am a superior person. This is addressed to Zion, to Jerusalem: Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. (Revelation 21:1517). In other words the child does not sort of make a commitment to come out of his mothers womb. 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