We don’t want to deny that. There is thus a sense in which God views me, Don Carson, through the lens of Jesus. That is to say, it is providential and non-discriminating. That is why in the Bible faith is strengthened by articulating and defending the truth. There’s only one other possible way. You’re not the one who was gang-raped! But they are not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There is still hope He is still a wanted man in Egypt. When men and women were crucified, they were crucified naked. And I didn’t know what to suggest to him. There must be transformation. Why didn’t they tell the truth about what happened at this point?” Then he answered his own question: “Because if they had told the truth today, nobody would have believed them.” Because at the time it was not like there were any more Christians around, but there was enough of the Christian heritage that drove a moral imperative that made people from within want to do something self-sacrificial for others. That is why Christians speak of the Trinity: one God but somehow complex, three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—yet one God, so united, so one in purpose and will, so all God that you cannot separate them and make three Gods. We could press on, but we must observe the last step in this chapter. “But the way of the wicked will be destroyed” (Psalm 1:6) like tracks made on the seashore when the tide is out; when the tide rolls in and the tide rolls out, you don’t see the tracks. What’s gone on in the intervening chapters is not particularly pretty. He was in the world [i.e., the world that he had made], and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. Now I know it is imagery. God himself is to be their ruler, their king. Deuteronomy 32:31,39 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges… 1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. Any manifestation of God’s wrath that you have seen so far—the exile, for example, plagues in the Old Testament, disease, war—any of these things that you have seen as horrible manifestations of God’s wrath, that was the diluted form. Then on Monday I go back to my reagents as I try to develop a new chemical that will fight cancer.” Rather, if it’s God’s universe and we are made in his image, then as we work, our work, too, reflects him and is offered back up to him with integrity and gratitude. I have to tell you over the generations people have understood this expression “born of water and the Spirit” in a number of ways. Peter saw him on his own. Is he not the God of Gentiles too? There was a young German Nazi soldier there—maybe nineteen years old. The reason that we are not to say, “Oh, God!” or hit our thumb with a hammer and say “Jesus!” is precisely because it diminishes God. Here I’m merely going to prime the pump. That’s grace. But I am not what I was. He says, in effect, “Nicodemus, if were to try to depict the throne-room of God to you in all of its spiritual glory, you wouldn’t have a clue. This is a hymn that has been composed as a reflection on Genesis 1–2. It simply means that he is now acting as God’s son in God’s place in the king-family as it were. But the text says, “God so loved the world.” It’s as if God is saying to the world, “You are the people of the crippled knees. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son” (John 3:16). You’re back to the cross again. For us today redemption is another God-talk term. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. The reason we don’t think this way is that not only do we think that God ought to love but “he especially ought to love me because I’m nice and neighborly and maybe even cute. The best I could do is say, “Listening, if you’re going to use a mathematical model, then let me choose the branch of mathematics. What love does Jesus show? God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Propitious simply means favorable, that is, to say that propitiation is an act by which God becomes propitious is to say it is an act by which God becomes favorable to us. They were not a sea-going people. It’s true that sometimes Christians—God help us—are mean. He is the one we have mugged, and he is our judge. I think we should start some new race among the human race, a kind of subunit. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16). Are the righteous those who avoid the counsel and the patterns of life of rebels and ungodly people? A new beginning? God’s love can be cast in a kind of providential setting. It’s a bloody mess. The connection between Revelation 14:6 and 14:7 is a little different. He owns the whole planet. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus. In particular, in the next verses he explains how all of this is grounded in the love of God. He is perfectly righteous. Mary was betrothed to Joseph, and then he discovers that she is pregnant. Remember that this nation is your people.” (Exodus 33:12–13). The God Who is There is book that puts this into practice. You’re promising too much. It simply isn’t the worldview of the Bible. How can you possibly forgive them? Aside from encouraging guilt, justifying the need for divine punishment and causing an incipient sadomasochism that has endured with a relentless tenacity through the centuries, the traditional understanding of the cross of Christ has become inoperative on every level. Let me draw some inferences from this passage and related ones. In fact, it’s David’s way of getting the bloke home, and he thinks that he’ll go home and sleep with his wife. It was a sacrifice to Neptune to make him propitious. It is sometimes called the beatific vision, the blessed vision. You’ve got more sins behind you that you don’t even recognize—sins that you’ve committed that you don’t any know about, more than you can possibly imagine. It seems strange in our ears. A huge part of the plotline is how Jesus starts talking about how he is going to die. David understands that because he understands the opening chapters of Genesis. Their eyes were opened; they knew they were naked; and in consequence they sewed fig leaves together for a covering (Genesis 3:7). Some have tried to argue that Nicodemus here shows himself to be the thick Regius Professor of Divinity. Completely and utterly and totally and joyfully God-centered because it is the way it should be. There’s going to be judgment.” So sometimes God comes not only upon his covenant people with judgment, but the God of the Bible is the God of all the nations so he holds all the nations to account. Like the wind, we might not understand the mechanism, but you see the results. Are you saying that God is making a mistake or that God is unjust to you?”, “Oh, no. I have a son who is a marine, and if instead he started selling heroine on the streets of New York, I think I’d love him anyway. It’s a perfect delight. It’s written by an atheist. But now with resurrection existence and no possibility even of falling, no impurity is ever allowed to enter there. For those of you who have been Christians for some time and have got to know some elderly believers, you’ve probably discovered it’s the elderly Christians who love the book of Psalms. It was a influential professor in the United Kingdom in the 1930s by the name of C. H. Dodd who argued very strongly that this doesn’t make any sense. He is strong with the strength of Christ. The answer is Yes because some of the passages in which the Bible deploys the language of love really cast God’s love as amoral. He’s accompanied by a young man at this juncture named Joshua, who will ultimately become Moses’ successor. God still remained the king, the final sovereign over all the people, but the king was supposed to mediate God’s justice to the people, to mediate God and his ways and his laws to the entire people. It just begins, “In the beginning God.” He is. For at the end of the day, what hell measures is how much Christ paid for those who escape hell. And anybody whom he sees as a threat to his authority, he wants to kill. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”, When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. The change is good. Now if you have walked in here for the first time and you have come from an utterly secular background and you hear some joker at the front of the room quoting lines like this, you think, “Has he taken leave of his senses? It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. “Did I do what was right?” Vizental almost got it right. In that sense we are already under God’s judgment. You take away all the good things that he’s got, and he’ll turn around and curse you to your face.” And God says, “Go ahead. The nature of the murmuring and grumbling, the whining and complaining, was bound up with a profound dissatisfaction of God. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. If there is one thing that our world thinks it knows about God—if our world believes in God at all—is that he’s a loving God. Just because you’ve had a kid go off the rails doesn’t mean that you won’t be in a car accident. Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” Now where does this charge come from? Even when he is denouncing people and generations and groups for their sins, sometimes in very strong language (he can actually call some people “You snakes in the grass, you generation of vipers, don’t you see what you’re doing? He came home, laid down, and died. We need to think about this just a little bit more. You didn’t have that kind of easy, free conversation. Wait your turn. And so philosophers and theologians have written long tomes saying, “Well, it has something to do with the facility of language, our self-identify, our reasoning processes, love that might be altruistic, our capacity to know God,” and so on. He came to be butchered. We’re back in the Bible’s storyline. And you live in a certain kind of fear that you haven’t paid enough or scratched appropriately, or maybe the god in question in particularly bad-tempered. He is the just one, and he is the offended party. For us sonship has to do with DNA, so endless programs, the various CSIs on television, are constantly using DNA to discover who the real father is. The others spent the rest of the war—three years and four months—in prison camps. But I do know this: sometimes God picks up something that is already there and uses it in a new symbol-laden way. I wish I had somebody who would go between me and God; that’s what I need.”. “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” (Genesis 22:1–2). 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.” There’s no hint that anybody else is there. You and I are rebels, and we’ve got nothing to barter with. Jesus is an astonishingly moral figure. Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation. I used to avoid this truth by applauding—as you can—the practical work of mission churches in Africa. That is, we reflect God, and the ways in which we reflect God will get filled in as the Bible unfold. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. God “did this to demonstrate his justice,” not simply to love, forgive, or redeem us because if no one had paid for our sins then how could God say, “I forgive you”? 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. What I am going to do in this session is not focus on one short paragraph and unpack it in detail. We hide all kinds of things, don’t we? And from their seed will come someone through whom all the nations of the earth will be blessed. “All things betray thee, who betrayest Me.”. . I will be his father, and he will be my son. This is because sin is social. They are listed for us in the next verses. The God Who is There A series of 14 talks designed to help you find out what the Bible says. There is no text that says it was an apple as if God really hates apples but is rather partial towards pineapples and pears. I provide the sacrifice! You may recall that in one of the earlier session I mentioned that the notion of kingdom can be quite varies. At 24, travelling by land across the continent reinforced this impression. At the top of each pillar is a little fresco where there is a figure, and the guide explained, “There is Aristotle, for government must be based on knowledge. Or a contemporary thinker writer, “We human beings are a mystery to ourselves. So the way such pagan religion works is that you go to the temple of the particular god in question, and you give the god the kind of thing that the god wants. It is a shared throne, as it were. At the end God restores the fortunes of Job because after all in the Bible in the end not only is justice done, but it’s seen to be done. “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with pain you will give birth to children. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I suspect that the image then in the very first verse of this being who was crowned with more prudence than all the others, but in rebelling it became craftiness; the very same virtue that is such a strength once twisted becomes a vice. There was a problem loading your book clubs. They still have not arrived at the promised land. No, because of the “law” that requires faith. She’ll find out about the knowledge of good and evil from the inside. We divide the passage in to. How is it to be understood? It’s the ground right in front of the cross. God’s going to build a house, that is, a household and thus a dynasty for David. Who is God? He is what he discloses of himself. Because I believed things that filled me with dread, I thought I was smarter and braver than the people who didn’t believe them. There will be no more night. It is in fact an act of love, of great generosity. Kings come and kings go; the new usurper comes and slaughters all the children of the previous one. Verse 5 is souped up a bit more from “see” to “enter,” but it’s still in the same sort of sweep. It’s a new covenant. 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