“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
― Augustine of Hippo
If Jesus didn't think he could handle life without knowing the Scripture inside and out, what makes you think you can?
If Jesus didn't think he could handle life without knowing the Scripture inside and out, what makes you think you can?
- Timothy Keller
GENESIS 3-5
8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”(3:8-10)MATTHEW 2
19After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
21So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
JOURNAL
This quote by Timothy Keller got all kinds of backlash...people saying that this causes people to worship the Bible and use it for harm and saying that all that really matters is love and that Jesus was reading from the Torah and not the New Testament. So crazy how people can get so out of whack in their own thinking. To me this all smells of trying to defend the fact that they probably never have really read the whole Bible. My question is how can you truly say that you worship and follow God if you have never really read the Bible.
It's like giving a book report on a book you haven't ever actually read. There are so many things in scripture that have troubled me, comforted me, puzzled me, convicted me...but in the end all of scripture together affirm my faith and educate me to an understanding of who God truly is...without this personal reading and study I truly feel I would be lost. This quote from my devotion a couple of years past is a prime example of something I never considered...
God calls out to the Man..."Where are you?" This is often the call of this generation to it's men. "where are you". Looking at this juxtaposed to the faith of Joseph...it is quite interesting. Joseph is visited 3 different times by angels in his dreams. Every time he obeyed and followed and as a result Jesus was protected and spared. It is also interesting that Jesus earthly "Father" is named Joseph the same name of the Joseph of the Old Testament and in many ways was the savior of his people through the famine of Egypt. He like Jesus was rejected, suffered, yet was redeemed and as a result brought his family into the Kingdom of Egypt. Just as Jesus was rejected, suffered and brought all people into the Kingdom of God. Joseph forgave his brothers and they were spared and made righteous, Jesus forgives us and makes us righteous. I have never really put that together before.
It's like giving a book report on a book you haven't ever actually read. There are so many things in scripture that have troubled me, comforted me, puzzled me, convicted me...but in the end all of scripture together affirm my faith and educate me to an understanding of who God truly is...without this personal reading and study I truly feel I would be lost. This quote from my devotion a couple of years past is a prime example of something I never considered...
God calls out to the Man..."Where are you?" This is often the call of this generation to it's men. "where are you". Looking at this juxtaposed to the faith of Joseph...it is quite interesting. Joseph is visited 3 different times by angels in his dreams. Every time he obeyed and followed and as a result Jesus was protected and spared. It is also interesting that Jesus earthly "Father" is named Joseph the same name of the Joseph of the Old Testament and in many ways was the savior of his people through the famine of Egypt. He like Jesus was rejected, suffered, yet was redeemed and as a result brought his family into the Kingdom of Egypt. Just as Jesus was rejected, suffered and brought all people into the Kingdom of God. Joseph forgave his brothers and they were spared and made righteous, Jesus forgives us and makes us righteous. I have never really put that together before.
4But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
EPHESIANS 2:4-10
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