BLESSED REITERATION
Monday, February 25, 2019
2Timothy {MKJV] 2:15 Study earnestly to present yourself
approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the Word of Truth.
Using the styles
of various chosen penman God regularly repeats truths in His Word. As an
example, using different terminology Paul states truth that John recorded.
John
recorded Jesus explained that we must be
born-again or we cannot see the kingdom of God. (Jn.3:3) Paul stated the same
fact in his 2nd epistle to the church at Corinth: Because we
understand our fearful responsibility to the Lord, we work hard to persuade
others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too. Are we
commending ourselves to you again? No, we are giving you a reason to be proud
of us, so you can answer those who brag about having a spectacular ministry
rather than having a sincere heart. If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring
glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. Either
way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we
also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so
that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves.
Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. So we
have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we
thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know
him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God,
who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of
reconciling people to him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to
himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this
wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is
making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to
God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so
that we could be made right with God through Christ. (NLT 2Cor.5:11-21)
So why does God
repeat so much throughout His Word? We already know the answer to this
question.
EBB4
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