If God came into the world to make winners of humans should humans not confess to losing?

Christ came to save sinners.  “Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.”

1 Timothy 1:16, NASB

• God is not interested in your edenic dining
• God is not moved by you sinaitic drinking
• God needs your mortal and decrepit bodies
• God has been giving his Spirit to people he knows to be prone to fatigue and forgetfulness, subject to change and growth

Yeah but no

Only the people who admit that they are ruined can hope to be registered among Gods people. The genuine vision of God can have only one response and one remedy.

“In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.” (Isaiah 6:1, NASB)

Then I said, “Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.” (Isaiah 6:5, NASB)

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth with it and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.” (Isaiah 6:6-7, NASB)

Only the blind have the deepest appreciation of eyesight.

Question of the day

What can “sources close” to the Messiah say to muddy the waters and trample the green grass? (Ezekiel 34:16)

Here are an outrageous few

To set up the answers let me connect the dots of water, the grass, and the “close sources”.  You have likely heard the popular opener for many news items, which instead of feeding the news follower the facts from the subject, the anchor or reporter keeps teasing people with what unnamed “sources close to” who ever have to say.  This introduces us to a host of people spouting “thees” and “thines” while conveniently skipping “doest” and “loveth”.

GOD punishes you but not me for violating the law

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But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? (Romans 2:3, NASB)

Grace makes them obedient to law

The gift of life can turn out to be a mistake

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.  (John 5:21, NASB)

Eternal life is a testing stage like Sinai, and Messiah does more killing than giving life

We have to teach you the doctrines for you to become a child of God

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“…Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven”. (Matthew 18:3, NASB)

Neither kids nor adults need a knowledge base for access to God’s kingdom

A man can’t be God

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The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” (Luke 5:21, NASB)

Hard-hearted and impenitent things

Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. (Romans 7:4, NASB)

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And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;” (Acts 21:20, NASB)

To be married to the law is adultery

Muddy water is not good for consumption by beast or man.  Trampled grass loses its nutrient value.  People who need to put their own stamp on what God has said (the water and the grass for his flock) are obviously not sources close to GOD.  They are not even close to his eyewitnesses.  From the start, there was one way into the kingdom,  “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1:15, NASB)

It is not the Gospel and something else that constitutes the pure life water. It is not Christ and someone else who speaks for God. Sinai streams no good news. Faith’s channel is not debt, but grace. People who have insurmountable problems interpreting a 200 year old constitution have nothing to tell us about the 2000 year plus sayings of the Nazarene.

Question of the day

Who benefits when one embraces the tree planted by the rivers of water identity but surrenders the fadeless leaves and seasonal fruit outcomes?

He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.

Psalms 1:3, NASB