Ezekiel 33:11
"Say
to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of
Israel?’"
We need to understand that the God of Israel was a
covenant keeping God. This is because the covenant that God made with
Abraham was a covenant of grace and confirmed Abraham and his offspring
in the covenant by faith alone. The law was not given until 450 or so
yrs latter. And this is why God was faithful to His chosen people.
Because in the covenant of grace God is always faithful ... He protects
His people from all harm.. so that they can say.. we will never be
forsaken.. we will not be shaken and we are under the full protection
and power of God to bring us through. There is a reason that God gave
the covenant of grace first. Its because the chosen are unable in
themselves to do one good thing. I mean... the pronouncement of
foolishness is toward sinners. Abraham considered himself as wicked
before God so that he might be justified by faith and not by the works
of the law. It was his gospel obedience in sacrificing his son. This
is why God gives us a grace that is irresistible. Because He spoke
from the beginning and there was life. And He speaks salvation and there
is new life. He calls his people to himself that is a great multitude
that no one can number and leads them up to the temple to worship him.
These people are prisoners that need gifts. Because they have been under
oppression for too long. His grace is fully able to save the most
oppressed person in this world. From the time of salvation ... God
pronounces ongoing salvation to His weak ones. This is Gods call that is
irrevocable. Oh that salvation would come to Israel... i am fully aware
in my pronouncements of blessing in my prayers on Gods church that
Israel is not going to be forsaken. Its in the covenant of Abraham. If i
forget you oh Jerusalem... oh that salvation for Isreal would come out
of Zion when God restores the fortunes of His people!!.... that promise
through David that Christ would rule in the new heaven and earth. If God
turned from his people He would not be a covenant keeping God. We are
Abraham s seed but He will not forget Abraham.I love the planted seed in
the soil of history more than my own country. People the world is
changing and its foolish to try to reverse this course... put your hope
in God.. He moves events toward proving Himself faithful to His
covenant. God is GOD. Ok ... let me get my dancing clothes on and sing some Psalms... I ll be bock.
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Thanks Kk ... a very good discussion... just
wanted to resurrect this thread. These days are extremely trying because
i believe we are entering into a time of great temptation as a people.
Its become a mental oppression as well as facing physical exhaustion.
Most of what we are talking about here in this doctrinal discussion has
to do with the question of what is a proper world view... or what kind
of vision do we have in knowing how to discern the times. We are always
tempted to over react as a definition of falling into danger. This is
why we are encouraged to stand our ground because our first impulse is
to take our swords and start wailing away at the opposition. This is why
these doctrines are very important to our understanding of how to move
along on this very particular path. God has designed this way in
being able to see the entire event as already transpiring so that He is
not just a God of the individual situations that we are in but He is a
God of a period of time and subsequently is more direct and fully able
than we judge Him to be in moving the entire world events so that the
elect and the weak are not destroyed. We really are not dealing with a
succession of events ... but we are dealing with a general course of the
world in which men are trapped. Because our battle is with the world
the flesh and the Devil. God understands fully that men are more molded
by the current philosophy of the world that brings them into a course
which in the end will lead them to the choice of which bondage is the
lesser evil. Just like Pilate in this passion week with Jesus. He ends
up in the way he conducted himself throughout his ruling ways. He gave
the people the oppressive prisoner and crucified the Redeemer of mankind
because he was unable in himself to withstand the pressure from the
Roman empire. It was little traps and then it was a scheme... and then
it was circumstances that swallowed him up. This is how Satan gets the
advantage over the world in this destroying scheme. It is a slippery
slope and then He greases the tracks so to speak. So that the elect
of God are totally dependent upon God to identify the pitfalls that
stand in our way. Our problems are vision. We can only determine to
identify a tenable circumstance by how people think and what they love.
But we do not have the vision that God has.
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on: April 01, 2010, 02:11:11 PM
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Kk
As
that well-known little guy with the big God says, "There is only one
commander and chief of the universe." Isn't it exciting to be in His
armed services? (Armed with His Word and Spirit, of course...)
The
things that are most obvious are the ones that get lost in a multitude
of insignificant things. If we were to try and focus on all of the
different attachments that we have in this world that will bring us
pleasure and a real sense of security among our own people it would be a
weight that we could not endure. This is why gospel living is not
focusing on overcoming the detail but its remembering a few simple
things. We long to long and we become. Our forgiveness is sure and
stead fast. Our sins have been removed from us as far as the east is
from the west. Now everyday the sun rises in the east and it makes it
circle over us. That is we see the same light rise from the east and its
a glorious picture that God is faithful and His love is from
everlasting. It spans the universe. He is the same from day to day. His
provision is both spiritual and physical. This is why we sense what we
know is true about the light that we are exposed to. We see the sun come
up and we feel the heat. It blinds our eyes. So it is in the
spiritual sense. His word has been spoken. It rises in our hearts as we
are exposed to the light of His countenance. This is why it never
returns void. It changes us because we are made to be changed from one
glory to another. Sometimes we stop at the light part... but its more
than light ... its pleasure. Now this is how we know Him. We are exposed
to the pleasure of God when we are exposed to His light and we are made
to rejoice in His word. So that in the pleasurable longing we are made
to pronounce more pleasure on the meditation of His word. When we begin
to be transformed in this way then we know the source of security and
faithfulness. That this universe is not going any where because God is
upholding it and we are safe in His hands so that in the pleasure we
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That's
not a sin God can't forgive; that's a crime that society cannot
overlook. For instance, if a man is a murderer and has been sentenced to
the death penalty, that's a "sin unto death." However, to the penitent
person, God can forgive that person and justify Him through the
sacrificial death of His Son and give him the promise of a future in His
Kingdom, although society will probably still carry out the sentence
for his crimes.
These are people that commit terrible sins and
hide behind statements of faith and bare no fruits of repentance or
remorse. They see intellectual acknowledgement as a ticket to heaven
when in fact they have not repented nor turned their whole hearts toward
God. God forgives those who repent, confess their sins and turn to God
through Jesus. Unless we are "born Again" we will not see the Kingdom of
Heaven. I don't think you are an expert in 1st century
euphemisms and figures of speak. How could you be? It's your opinion
about Jesus' meaning; but it's a bit too literal and inconsistent with
all the others things Jesus says in the Gospels. Anyway there will be
non-believers still living on the earth when Jesus returns.He not going
to destroy the earth and everyone on it...thats extreme Bible
interpretation which ignores abundant OT scriptures which states the
opposite. So they can in fact be the least in the Kingdom of Heaven which has many peoples living here at that time. Thor 
Thor..
first i do not think we can determine absolutely who is a christian and
who is not. Only their lack of confession of Christ will make it sure
they are not. And if you look at the book of James... faith without
works is dead....he was not saying that if we make a bunch of rules and
keep them then we prove our own faith. Remember this has a history of
the Pharisees who were meticulous about rules. If you see in
the other parts of James the direction that he goes you will find it
having to do with a persons cultural position or his financial position
in society. James was taught by Jesus who was a friend of sinners and
who attended the Synagogue that was like dead orthodoxy. James probably
understood dead orthodoxy more than we do since we read into the book
our American form of self righteousness. If you look at the
history of the Jewish custom and understanding of faithfulness ... then
you will find that their idea of security of ones faith was based upon
their being a chosen nation of God and were loved by God as special
since it was Gods covenant to them in Abraham. Their problems were more
of a self righteousness and presupposing things that were not true. So
in the NT we come to the apex of this kind of thinking in the Synagogue
worship. There were a lot of divisions in the Jewish church of Christ
day on many cultural fronts. James is really talking bout Lording it
over one another in the spirit of strife and envy. He is not saying that
if you keep a bunch of rules then your faith is real. The standard
in the OT was to treat your neighbor as the law required. That is why
they would open their personal things to a stranger without judgment.
And if you really want to see how important it was just look at Lot in
his depravity offering his daughters as a peace offering. James is
dealing with the reality that of the use of the means of the faith as
that by which we show our true colors. He encourages the use of the
means as that by which we approach God... we understand our relationship
to the poor and the widows and we set aside our biases and love because
Christ loved that way. It is showing that you love Christ by looking to
Him as the only hope.. in connecting in a fashion that is out of the
heart. This is like the argument that Paul makes in the first part
of Romans. He attacked their self righteousness by saying that they
forbid the very things they do. Which is a lack of understanding ....
mainly about the gospel ... of which Paul lays our in detail in 5-11.
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Willis:
"On the other hand, if I'm playing a game of chess against a
grandmaster, even though I am totally free to play whatever moves I want
(free will), the grandmaster's knowledge is so superior to mine that it
matters little as he can steer the game as he pleases to his desired
result. Imagine if the grandmaster had INFINITE knowledge of every
possible path the game could take!"
K-k: If we take that infinite
knowledge of every possible path and expand it a bit we get infinite
knowledge of every possible path that will be taken by each individual.
And that is back to an all-knowing God knowing in advance each decision
that will be made by each "free to rebel" person, plus His own
responses to those decisions. Which makes both free will and
predestination possible simultaneously.
Somehow i forget why there is a theological conflict about this.
Real
value on this earth is expressed by the amount of help we need as
gospel members in community. It is not as the world attaches value to
things. This is why Christ came into the world with a radical message.
Because it goes against every thing that works in a materialistic
society. God must work in determining all the workings of things or men
will turn the world into a kind of Tower of Babel. Our problems as
Christ has said is that since we are so blind the the infinite value of
His work ... then we try to make a system of checks and balances that
weigh in our favor. God will not be mocked. The truth of kingdom
relations is that the weak are the exalted ones in Christ kingdom... the
strong are made to feel weak. First because sin is like stealing the
gold from the Kings hand. Each sin is an attempt to over throw the Kings
reign. Whether it is a sin of omission or commission... whether there
are worse consequences on this earth... yet before the eyes of the King
who attaches eternal value to the weight of the reality of the way
things are supposed to work every sin is a weight to stall.. bring to an
end.. that work that God does through His needy ones. Instead of
attaching the value of Christ to work in the situation ... that is going
the extra mile... men make their own system ... trying to move things
along ... faster than God .. so that they build their own religion to
replace Gods ways. This is why religious professionalism is so
deceitful. Because men do not lower themselves to the level of weakness
as a natural understanding of the value of suffering on Christ behalf.
THis is why God will not allow a man to continue on from one generation
to another. Our only hope is to come before our God and let Him
determine how He is going to work and expressing our lack of the weight
of real value to do as He would want us to pay in bringing real goodness
to one another. God must be God in all things or it would not be real
value.
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This is interesting in this discussion.... http://www.easy-strategy.com/ http://www.nlp.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB_fJuUwvwwSocialism All
men will serve a god. And all men wish to serve a servile god. One that
pays well. So as i have been saying there is a very distinct grace that
cannot be violated or its just a doctrine of demons.
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I
had a similar reaction after 9/11. Wanted to exterminate all fanatical
Muslims. Followed by conviction that this was a very wrong attitude.
Followed by the recognition that i needed to repent and pray for them.
(But for the grace of God, there go i....)
And by the
remembrance that, compared to Christ's perfect 100% righteousness, the
rest of us are far below the 10 percent righteousness line. We feel so
superior with our 7 percent goodness compared to someone else's 6
percent. Or should that be our .007 % compared to their .006 %?
Kk...
living in guilt is not a way to change in the christian life.Your
always trying to use the scripture to prove your point or to force a
conviction. The scripture supports revenge in some ways. I mean..
lawful.It also forbids abusive behavior. It does not matter if its in
some kind of business setting in the world or its using christian lingo
to control someone. Its the same spirit of gotcha... this is why we
believe there is a balance in these things. Even in the old testament ..
of which people try to say that it was unloving to curse the enemies of
God... but the law forbade bullying. It was just as binding in the nt
as ot. God gave the law to protect the abused party... it was not just a
christian practice. What do you think this means here when in
distinguishing between christian practice and legalism? Legalism1. Using
the Mosaic covenant as though it is the covenant between you and God. Teen Suicide Leads to Indictment of 9 Students
March
29) --Two days before a high school dance, 15-year-old Phoebe Prince
hanged herself at her parents' home. Now, investigators have accused
nine of her fellow students with the bullying that may have prompted the
suicide.
At a news conference today, Northwestern Massachusetts
District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel detailed the charges against
Prince's fellow students at South Hadley High School. They included
statutory rape, violation of civil rights, criminal harassment and
disturbance of a school assembly, The Boston Globe reported.
Prince,
who recently immigrated to the United States from Ireland with her
family, was the target of abuse and bullying since last fall, Scheibel
said, sometimes within the view of school staff, as is said to have been
the case on the day she took her own life.
"The harassment
reported to have occurred that day in the school library appears to have
been conducted in the presence of a faculty member and several
students, but went unreported to school administrators until after
Phoebe's death," Scheibel said.
In the wake of Prince's suicide
on Jan. 14, residents of South Hadley have demanded that school
Superintendent Gus Sayer resign from office, the Boston Herald reported.
Until Monday's indictments were handed down, no action had been taken
against the students accused of bullying Prince.
It is believed that she was being bullied over a brief relationship with a boy at the school.
The
students named in the indictments are Sean Mulveyhill, 17; Kayla Narey,
17; Austin Renaud, 18; Ashley Longe; 16, Flannery Mullins, 16; and
Sharon Chanon Velazquez, 16. Mulveyhill and Renaud were the only
students charged with statutory rape.
Three other female students
were also charged with crimes including assault with a dangerous weapon
and violation of civil rights, but their names were not released.
As
a result of Prince's death, the Massachusetts Legislature has approved
an anti-bullying bill, the Boston Herald reported, that mandates that
school principals report bullies to police in cases where criminal
charges might be applicable.Do you think its christian to
not have any kind of response in this story? Turn the other cheek? Do
you know it is a criminal offense to use words to incite a person to
violent behavior ... it could be religious talk as well? We are peace makers
and that could be expressed in revengeful lawful protection or some
kind of pragmatic response where the authorities are abusive. The lack
of parental and teacher protection is abusive. Every situation has a
specific response according to the individual circumstances. Its abusive
to take the Sermon on the Mount and make it a law in its application. You
need to incorporate the Psalms in public and private worship. Not as a
rule... maybe the aggressive parts are for private... I dont know... its
such a weird world. I do not believe that a person can be truly
understanding of protection and the wisdom to know what abuse is until
they have processed these ot prayers in their own prayer life.
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I agree with what you say, mbG. But you didn't directly address the question.
If God loves His enemies and commands us to do the same, shouldn't we "love" satan, while hating what he does?
"But
love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and
your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For
He is kind to the unthankful and evil." Luke 6:35
Luke
6:35. "Lend, expecting nothing again. It is a mistake to confine this
statement to usury, as if Christ only forbade his people to be usurers.
The preceding part of the discourse shows clearly, that it has a wider
reference. After having explained what wicked men are wont to do, — to
love their friends, — to assist those from whom they expect some
compensations, — to lend to persons like themselves, that they may
afterwards receive the like from them, — Christ proceeds to show how
much more he demands from his people, — to love their enemies, to show
disinterested kindness, to lend without expecting a return. We now see,
that the word nothing is improperly explained as referring to usury, or
to any interest that is added to the principal:whereas Christ only
exhorts us to perform our duties freely, and tells us that mercenary
acts are of no account in the sight of God. Not that he absolutely
condemns all acts of kindness which are done in the hope of a reward;
but he shows that they are of no weight as a testimony of charity;
because he alone is truly beneficent to his neighbors, who is led to
assist them without any regard to his own advantage, but looks only to
the necessities of each. Whether it is ever lawful for Christians to
derive profit from lending money, I shall not argue at greater length
under this passage, lest I should seem to raise the question
unseasonably out of a false meaning which I have now refuted. Christ’s
meaning, as I have already explained, is simply this: When believers
lend, they ought to go beyond heathens; or, in other words, they ought
to exercise pure liberality." Calvin This must be balanced with the rest of scripture and a mans ability.
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Election
Union between Christ and his
people was planned already in eternity, in the sovereign pretemporal
decision whereby God the Father selected us as his own. Christ himself
was chosen to be our Savior before the creation of the world (1 Pet.
1:20); Ephesians 1:4 teaches us that when the Father chose Christ, he
also chose us.
Anthony Hoekema
" ...the conversion of a sinner
being not owing to a man's self determination, but to God's
determination, and eternal election, which is absolute, and depending on
the sovereign Will of God, and not on the free will of man; as is
evident from what has been said : and it being very evident from the
Scriptures, that the eternal election of saints to the faith and
holiness, is also an election of them to eternal salvation; hence their
appointment to salvation must also be absolute, and not depending on
their contingent, self-determining Will."
Jonathan Edwards
Election
is the unchangeable purpose of God, whereby, before the foundation of
the world, He has out of mere grace, according to the sovereign good
pleasure of His own will, chosen from the whole human race, which had
fallen through their own fault from the primitive state of rectitude
into sin and destruction, a certain number of persons to redemption in
Christ, whom He from eternity appointed the Mediator and Head of the
elect and the foundation of salvation. This elect number, though by
nature neither better nor more deserving than others, but with them
involved in one common misery, God has decreed to give to Christ to be
saved by Him, and effectually to call and draw them to His communion by
His Word and Spirit; to bestow upon them true faith, justification, and
sanctification; and having powerfully preserved them in the fellowship
of His son, finally to glorify them for the demonstration of His mercy,
and for the praise of the riches of His glorious grace; as it is written
"For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and
blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his
sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--to
the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the
One he loves." (Eph 1:4-6). And elsewhere: "And those he predestined, he
also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he
also glorified." (Rom 8:30).
Canons of Dort (1.7)
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My
somewhat rhetorical question, was directed at our attitude toward
satan. We are told to "love our enemies", and we know that God loves us
even when we are His enemies.
So what should we strive for, compassion for the most lost being, the one who will be the most tortured for eternity?
Kk
we need to keep these two concepts in our vision. We are first to bring
peace... but as you wrote a while back... we also warn that if they
reject the gospel there is a sword to contend with. Now we know that God
loves men in different ways. He has a desire to love all men. Because
He has allowed sinners to prosper in this world.. He did not punish them
for all eternity at the first site of sin... then He is loving. And His
anger is not necessarily to harm the unbeliever. But He hates by not
sharing His love to them. Because God has reasons why He chooses some
and He passes over others. Because we all deserve to be sent to hell.
But God is good because He chooses out of His good pleasure who will
believe. And He never rejects the one who seeks Him. Which is really a
person who has His Spirit or is being regenerated. But its mainly a
promise to the family. This is why we are in this world. Because we
can bring many people to Christ... i dont mean.. in a direct way as
witnessing but over a period of time in our consistent determination to
see His kingdom flourish were we frequent. It may be a lot of trouble
first. But there is always someone watching from a distance. And God
saves people in his time table. So we cant always determine our own
success.
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mbG:
"This is why we do not address Him as the Father... or necessarily our
Father being public... but my Father." ...Later: "...relaxed in our
Father's arms."
K_k: I don't remember you (or anyone else here,
other than the currently writing oddball) calling God our perfect Dad.
Do you feel that is too informal? We may have hinted at a discussion of
this before, but now seems like a good time to continue it.
Jesus
used the word ABBA in referring to God, which is usually translated
Father in English, but actually is more personal and intimate, more like
our "Daddy/Poppa". We use the term Father in a more distant way,
normally. I wouldn't call even my physical father Father, but rather
Dad.
Could just be semantics, but i suspect it is more a way we
have been trained to keep God "out there", instead of "right here".
What would satan like more than our thinking of God as either
non-existant, or very distant, or highly upset with us? And what would
satan dislike more than our seeing, in Christ, God as our perfect Daddy,
Who looks on us as His innocent children (purified by His Blood), Who
is totally dedicated to our complete protection, our greatest current
well-being, our ultimate best future, and Who can be trusted in / relied
on / depended on, in all circumstances?
What if we really can
jump up in His "arms", spiritually, and know He'll always gently catch
us, kiss-heal every "boo-boo", and hug us all the way through? What
chance would the enemies of the King have with children like that? OK,
that's just a rhetorical question, we know the answer...
Kk
i agree with you... as a way of being stilled in our souls and finding
all of our needs met in God... i mean...even having a sense that we have
lost the worlds pressures for a time... this is Daddies way. Now it
really is that Daddy wants us to know what we need from Him. I dont
think its just focusing on His greatness and big heart of desire. Buts
He actually promises to teach us in this mystery of a Shepherd
Physician. Just like He is the Shepherd King in Ps.23 He has the most
gentle hands. He searches us. This is something in a sense in which we
understand His love to us in our passive enjoyment. Some people have
devised a moral God as the great convict-er as the one who searches. But
there is more mystery in this.. its our Father who knows us as dust. This
is more than a spirit healing... it does at times bring us an
understanding of His design to heal us physically. It may be from His
healing hand ... directly... or it may be an illumination and
circumstantial connections. But if we learn about ourselves.. our
general susceptibility to weakness then we are learning this universe is
really the paradigm of the enjoyment of knowledge that God applies to
us in a personal voice of wisdom. Our Father responds to our knowledge
of ourselves. So that He teaches us about how to cry to Him even if the
concept of the word is the same... but it goes in a different
application to each individual. The point is that we receive the most
personal application to our need. This is our Father hearing us. Or its
His teaching us what we do not know and providing us a future
deliverance by our personal longing and asking. As we learn to this most
personal reply we are deepened in our longings to be drawn into His
eternal pleasure. We experience this mysterious closeness that is beyond
description. Now His love consumes us.
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Is it unloving to have fantasies of being able to play "pin the tail" on mr. ultimate bad guy?
Kk...
i dont believe that we can hate a person and be lovingly available to
respond with respect and not like they have learned to act. This is why
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. The reality is that God
allows us to go through times of temptations in which we are made aware
of these special struggles. These are real situations with real people. I
dont believe the scripture allows us to go against our brothers in
Christ. Its best to avoid these kinds of confrontations. But how do we
know who is saved ... i mean.. thats Gods territory alone. We can only
trust that they mean what they say. Mans natural response in this
world is to eat other men. In this world where we define reality by
philosophy it usually may involve a conflict of personalities. Since
there is so much focus on that as the definition of a rational universe
of living. And so this is probably were there is real hatred and
destruction in this world. I do not think that man in his natural self
can control this. Because men are under the domination of their own
hate. They plot evil on their beds. Why? Because they refuse to think
thoughts of God. This is real hatred. If you hate God then there is only
one person in the universe to love. Self. The self outside of God is
restless... unbending... accusing... scheming...hateful and that
translates into planning a society where God and his people are
illuminated. This is man devising a universe from one day to another as
he lays his head on his bed. This is why Satan is the father of the
wicked.
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All things equal... they nullify each other. I
do not believe in an equilibrium universe. Just the progressive nature
of the world governments do not create equality.Real equality is
produced in a kingdom advancement. It is seen in a public display of
spiritual good winning over evil. This advancement of the kingdom of God
has a causal relationship to real hope in this world. So that the
progressive nature of the kingdom of man in a biblical sense is a
digression from a history of theocracy to a republic. Which is the
paradigm of the knowledge of covenant Theocracy.
So that the
most peaceful time in the history of the world was under the Davidic
rule. This is when God established in real time what covenant holistic
understanding that mirrored the needs of the soul both in terms of the
eternal hope and covenant prosperity in community. This is why Christ is
the eternal Davidic king of the earth.
When we think of having a
spiritual mind we must start with how a man thinks. The kinds of ideas
one has in how he develops his world view. If we are to worship the true
God we must worship Him as the King of the earth. If we are to know our
place in this world we must know it as we relate to a covenant keeping
God. We only know our connection to God as Father because of His
covenant of love. That transcends all human institutions. We get our
worth in this world directly from God our Father. So that we become a
new identity. We answer to our heavenly King. All of our authority on
this earth is from these promises that He has made in a covenant with us
as His children. These promises are yea and amen... may it be... or
they are the response of our cries... both in the condemning power of
the law over its jurisdiction .... and the protection we get from our
loving law giver. Its yea and amen... let it be.
Now this is how we
live in our speech. We live in a new kingdom. Yes there is a kingdom of
man but we are sojourners in our identity.
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