Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Worth reading carefully:
The concept of substitution may be said, then, to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy:
Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop.
Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems.
Simple ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
One of the great things that happened at the Cross is our justification. Without justification, we have a two-fold problem: we are sinful, and thus deserving of punishment, and we are unrighteous, and thus not deserving of eternal life. Jesus solves both of these problems... listen to Paul explain it:
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