EMULATING JESUS
Friday, November 28, 2014
John
3:16-18 For God so loved the world that He gave His
only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes on Him
is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he
has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
God’s John 1:12
family are to be Christ-like in thought and act. Surrendering to do so is not
always an easy thing. One method that alleviates this broad responsibility is
to narrow it down to flexible “Living right as best I can.”
Yes, holiness in
activity is something we are to do, but not narrowly confined to Ten Commandment supple striving.
Jesus example
included telling people about eternal condemnation. He did so much more
frequently than speaking of heaven. (In Maryland Bible Institute an instructor
explained ratio about 7 to 1.)
“N.T. Wright has
asked on various occasions, "Why are Americans so fixated on hell?"
On a subject of this magnitude, he is asking the wrong question. The question
he should be asking is simply, "Why did Jesus talk so much about
hell?" And why did our Lord spend more time talking about that subject
than most Americans ever talk about it? (see Matt. 5:22; Matt. 5:29,30; Matt.
7:13,14; Matt. 8:12; Matt. 10:28; Matt. 11:23,24; Matt. 13:49,50; Matt. 16:18;
Matt. 18:8,9; Matt. 18:34,35; Matt. 22:13; Matt. 23:15,33; Matt. 25:30; Matt.
25:41; Matt. 25:46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 10:15; Luke 12:5; Luke 16:22-24)”
[NT WRIGHT WRONG ABOUT ETERNAL TORMENT? By Pastor Dan
Delzell, Wellspring Lutheran Church in Papillion, NE, December 22, 2012 http://www.christianpost.com/news/nt-wright-wrong-about-eternal-torment-85983/
]
Yes, we are to be
Sweet Jesus. Indeed we are to copy
this behavior, but we are also to as did He . . . warn of existent “condemned already” condition
of eternal separation from God. (Jn.3:18) A horrific situation that as Jesus also
explains is escapable. (Jn.3:18)
As opportunity
presents itself this day, what shall we say?
EBB4
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