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NASB | 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 2:24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed. |
Bible Question: Jesus said I must work the works of Him that sent me...as long as I am in the world I am the light off the world. So are you saying Jesus isnt in this world any longer. Or that He healed the blind man to tick off his father.That reminds me of a story I heard of God aand Jesus sitting in heaven. God turns to Jesus and says what shall we do today? and Jesus says well lets heal this one give this one cancer make that one rich and take that ones home. That will cause them to worship us big time. I apologize that doesnt work with me. God says He is no respecter of persons so how can He heal at the same time as caausing sickness? |
Bible Answer: We are all of us clearly at the mercy of God, but not of God's "mood swings" as you have put it. To characterize the sovereign God as having mood swings is to describe Him as being capricious and unstable, a far cry from the Holy and Righetous God that Scripture reveals Him to be. The story you were reminded of and related in your post concerning the way God and Jesus passed their time in heaven by playing a divine version of Russian roulette with human beings is not funny, is not instructive, and reveals crass ignorance, blasphemy, and an utter lack of both taste and sensibility by him who invented it. I'd suggest you give that story a swift funeral. So great is the dichotomy of our finite perspective from that of the infinite, sovereign, and transcendent God that we must come to grips with the reality of how futile it really is to impugn God's motives by asking an unending series of What's If's and What About's. God put Job in his place not by answering all of Job's questions, but by asking Job a series of His questions. The Bible reveals everything about God that God chose to reveal about Himself. To presume that God has revealed everything about Himself that there is to know leads to error. To accept that God has revealed everything about Himself that He chose to reveal leads to wisdom. To have faith that what God has revealed about the redemptive work of His Son on the cross leads to salvation. To engage in the inane past-time of filling in the blanks ourselves on matters about which Scripture is silent or unclear leads to fruitless and time-wasting speculation. Sufficient enough indeed are the clearly revealed truths in God's word to keep us fully occupied for a lifetime, so we are hard pressed to justify a preposterous and ill-fated excursion into realms that God has reserved as His province alone. As with some of Job's questions, so with ours: God is saying in essence, "That's none of your business." Another fine illustration of the foolishness of trying to meddle in the Lord's business is given in the closing verses of John's Gospel. Jesus prophesies of Peter's martyrdom in 20:18,19. This prompts Peter to ask Jesus what would happen to John: "But Lord, what about this man?" Jesus answers Peter: "If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you?" You follow Me." The command, "You follow Me," signified to Peter that his primary concern must not be John but Peter's continued devotion to the Lord and His service. Jesus was saying to Peter that it was His business to take care of John and Peter's business to remain devoted in service to Christ. So should we all fare better to keep our speculative noses out of God's business and to attend to our own, which is loving and serving Him to the utmost. --Hank |