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1 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | DocTrinsograce | 243981 | ||
"It is easy for us as modern Christians to point the finger at the Israelites and take them to task for the fact that they forgot God. The complaining we see in the wilderness, the cycle of apostasy, judgment, and restoration that we see in Judges, the good king/bad king alternations that we see in 1–2 Kings -- these all emphasize the incessant inability of the Israelites to heed Moses’ admonition to 'take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery' (Deut. 6:12). We get tired when we read through Jeremiah and chapter after chapter is devoted to enumerating the sins of Israel and telling of Israel's coming judgment. We feel that we are superior to Israel, more spiritual, less likely to forget God. "But we, too, get distracted by the demands of our days, by the busyness of our times. We forget that as Moses warned that declining from the commandments of God displays a forgetting of God, the same applies to us. We tend to think that ignoring, or rather, not fully living up to one commandment of God is a small thing. But the result is not simply disobedience. It is the beginning of idolatry, of making a god in our own image, a god we can easily obey. But did Jesus not say, 'If you love me, you will keep My commandments' (John 14:15)? Yet, we find His commandments so easy to ignore. 'Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you' (Eph. 4:32), Paul says, but we want to hold on to offenses and resentments. It feels good to bear a grudge. But that is not the way Christ teaches. To bear a grudge, to envy the gifts and graces of others, to covet the possessions of others -- these are steps on the way to forgetting God." --Dr. Benjamin Shaw |
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2 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | EdB | 243982 | ||
This is a repeat. See post# 243964. Constant quotes are draining and repeated quotes are even more so. |
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3 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | DocTrinsograce | 243983 | ||
Why Ed, is there nothing other than sarcasm, vitriol, and denominational bias that you deem worth repeating in your life? Here is another quote worth repeating: "How excellent is that inner goodness and true religion that comes from this sight of the beauty of Christ! Here you have the most wonderful experiences of saints and angels in heaven. Here you have the best experience of Jesus Christ Himself. Even though we are mere creatures, it is a sort of participation in God's own beauty. 'Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature.' (2 Peter 1:4) 'God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness.' (Hebrews 12:10) Because of the power of this divine working, there is a mutual indwelling of God and His people. 'God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in Him.' (1 John 4:16) "This special relationship has to make the person involved as happy and as blessed as any creature in existence. This is a special gift of God, which he gives only to His special favorites. Gold, silver, diamonds, and earthly kingdoms are given by God to people who the Bible calls dogs and pigs. But this great gift of beholding Christ's beauty, is the special blessing of God to His dearest children. Flesh and blood cannot give this gift: only God can bestow it. This was the special gift which Christ died to obtain for His elect. It is the highest token of His everlasting love, the best fruit of His labors, and the most precious purchase of His blood. "By this gift, more than anything else, the saints shine as lights in the world. This gift, more than anything else, is their comfort. It is impossible that the soul who possesses this gift should ever perish. This is the gift of eternal life. It is eternal life begun: those who have it can never die. It is the dawning of the light of glory. It comes from heaven, it has a heavenly quality, and it will take its bearer to heaven. Those who have this gift may wander in the wilderness or be tossed by waves on the ocean, but they will arrive in heaven at last. There the heavenly spark will be made perfect and increased. In heaven the souls of the saints will be transformed into a bright and pure flame, and they will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." --Jonathan Edwards |
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4 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | EdB | 243986 | ||
Wow! I thought you would like to know you were repeating quotes. The fact they are boring and draining I thought everyone knew, sorry if it was news to you. |
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5 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | DocTrinsograce | 243987 | ||
...and these are very clearly needed to be repeated... "For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God." (Romans 8:6-8) "Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear." (Ephesians 4:29) "But like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior." (1 Peter 1:15) "The Lord Jesus is our text-book and our teacher, the schoolhouse in which we are taught, and the object lesson in which all truth is enshrined. But all is in vain unless we definitely and forever put away the old man; that is, our old manners and customs in so far as they are contrary to the Spirit of Christ. With equal decision we are called upon to seek the daily renewal of our spirit and the outward conformity of our mode of life to the example of Jesus. But it should never be forgotten that the latter will be a dry husk unless it is energized from the true vine. There can be little of Christ without unless He dwells without a rival within [!]. But the Holy Spirit will see to this [!!], if only we grieve Him not. "What a transformation immediately ensues! Truth instead of falsehood, gentleness for anger, earnest toil for dishonesty, cleansed instead of filthy speech. If all believers were to live like this, the world would know that the Son of God has come. It is not enough that a man should believe to secure deliverance from the wrath of God; he must daily seek to attain to such resemblance of Jesus as shall make men recall Him to mind." --Fredrick Brotherton Meyer (1847-1929) |
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6 | Let Go of Offenses and Resentments | Deut 6:3 | EdB | 243988 | ||
It is not who,or what we quote that makes us Christ like. It is how we live. Do we seek to conform to the rules under which we move or do we seek to present our agenda. Denominational dogma, denominational attempts to debase another denomination, attempts to mock another's theology has no place on this forum. Conformity to the stated guidelines do much to contribute to peace among all. |
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