God is an Author, and He Writes about You
...that's astonishing.
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1/ Built BY God FOR God (Ephesians 2:22)
In [Christ Jesus] you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
2/ Why Christianity lost the world…
Pr Weedon quoted Nietzche this weekend:
Christianity lost the wolrd when it lost its joy.
I’m not sure if Christianity ever had the world, or if it is supposed to want the world, but this much is true:
Christian joy is compelling.
Christians alone have hope (see Ephesians 2:12), and a way past Judgment Day to the joys of life everlasting.
But, the converse is also true:
Christian sadness is compelling.
Really, Christianity is compelling, and this is because Christ is compelling.
(Also, I can’t find the Nietzche quotation anywhere. If you find it, please let me know.)
3/ God is the Author of a Humble Book
What do we make of the fact that God authors the humble parts of the Scriptures? We talked about it in today’s Worldwide Bible Class. This is astonishing, an very important for how we approach the Scriptures. If you have the time, I hope you’ll give this one a watch. (You can always speed it up to X2.)
Here’s some of the Luther quotations we studied:
A Christian is something precious. There is nothing so insignificant in him that it does not please God. To shed one’s blood, to die, to sweat, to fight and struggle against the devil is in reality something great and decidedly pleasing to God. Therefore conclude as follows: When you are a believer, then even physical, carnal, and animal duties are pleasing to God, whether you eat, drink, are awake, or sleep. These are purely bodily and animal things. So great a thing is faith.
But the tears of the saints, their flights, their trials, and their smallest and greatest works are kept count of to be praised and celebrated forever.
This we should also apply to ourselves. For if we are Christians and truly godly, we know that we are like those very great saints, if not in the highest rank of the greatest virtues, nevertheless in these meanest and sordid deeds of this life, and that so far as the care and protection of God are concerned, we are loved no less than they are. As a sure pledge of this most tender and burning love we have God’s Son, for whose sake the Father loves us and makes us sit in the heavenly places, as Paul says (Eph. 2:6).
For just as parents guard their little ones with all care, lest perchance they fall, lest they stumble somewhere or offend, and, if they see a spot or mucus smeared on their cheeks, dry it and wipe it off—which an enemy or a stranger does not do—and if a feather sticks to their hair, comb and adorn it, so great also is God’s care, love, and true fatherly feeling toward all who believe in Him.
Beautiful stuff!
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Lord's Blessings, Pastor Wolfmueller
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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