-- from Robert Farrar Capon in Kingdom, Grace, Judgment
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
A Death He Can Use
"It is not, of course, that we are to run out and actively seek a miserable life like Lazarus’s. Contrary to the misreading of the spiritual advice of earlier centuries (for example, the go-hunt-for-trouble interpretation of Donne’s “Be covetous of crosses, let none fall”), we are not to go searching for loathesome diseases and rotten breaks. Life in this vale of tears will provide an ungenteel sufficiency of such things... The truth, rather, is that the crosses that will inexorably come— and the death that will inevitably result from them— are, if accepted, all we need. For Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to reward the rewardable, improve the improvable, or correct the correctible; he came simply to be the resurrection and the life of those who will take their stand on a death he can use instead of on a life he cannot."
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Your words ring true, There are so many preachers who are preaching as if Jesus died on the cross so that we could have a financially prosperous life here on earth. Those same preachers have been leaving out the importance and necessity of water baptism for the remission of sin and it’s importance for our salvation found in that continual spiritual cleanliness, that we enter in as we make that commitment to put sin aside, die to it, take up our cross and live in the righteousness that is found in the crucified, risen and living son of God, who is the only way we can enter into to eternity and glory with the Father of all that is Holy. With so many twisting what the bible says it is good to hear sound reasoning spoken by brothers and sisters who are not simply regurgitating safe and acceptable beliefs and principles or spitting hairs in endless debates and arguments. . . Those who have read and studied the Bible for themselves should know that those who leave out such things that are taught. . . they are leading many astray toward the promise of health and wealth in a happy and easy temporary way, and overlooking and trampling the most valuable and precious gift that can not be bought or sold.
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