A True Prophet
Jeremiah 28:5-9
Pastor Bob Hiller
6/29/2014
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/hIV4WTeDh3k
Matthew 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
1. Those who faithfully stand for ____________ ____________ should not expect an easy road.
2. God's Word brings a ____________ ____________ when it hits too close to home.
3. The only hope beneath God's word of ____________ is His ____________ of ____________.
Scripture Readings
Jeremiah 28:5-9
Romans 7:1-13
Matthew 10:34-42
Take It With You!
Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.
Why does God abandon Jesus to be murdered by us? The answer, it would seem, must lie in that very unconditional love and mercy he intends to carry out in act. God, I would think we can assume, knows full well that he is a problem for us. He knows that unconditional love and mercy is "the end" of us, our conditional world. He knows that to have mercy on whom he will have mercy can only appear as frightening, as wrath, to such a world. He knows we would have to die to all we are before we could accept it. But he also knows that that is our only hope, our only salvation. So he refuses to be wrath for us. He refuses to be the wrath that is resident in all our conditionalism. He can indeed be that, and is that apart from the work of Christ. But he refuses ultimately to be that. Thus, precisely so as not to be the wrathful God we seem bent on having, he dies for us, "gets out of the way" for us. Unconditional love has no levers in a conditional world. He is obedient unto death, the last barrier, the last condition we cannot avoid, "that the scriptures might be fulfilled"-that God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy. As "God of wrath" he submits to death for us; he knows he must die for us. That is the only way he can be for us absolutely, unconditionally. But then, of course, there must be resurrection to defeat that death, lest our conditionalism have the last word....Or we could put it another way. Jesus came to forgive sin unconditionally for God.
Gerhard Forde
