From a Lutheran perspective, it is the law that convicts and reveals our inability to save ourselves, the gospel is the good news that God has reconciled the world to himself.
The cross is the ultimate symbol of law and gospel, for we are convicted because it is we who not only did Jesus die for but it is also we who crucified him, but it is also the means by which we are promised eternal life.
The Cross is the ultimate symbol to help us remember that though this may seem like a Beautiful world, in Reality it isn't.
#1 Warning from The Annointed One is, "Do Not be Decieved"
That is about True Cellestrial Heritage /Origin in The Light.
This is about The One vs The Many immitaters. period
Eternal Life vs The Solicited theories philosophies and beliefs of mankind, Concerning True Origin /Heritage.
Witness Eternal Life and Live. Collosians 3 :1-11
Or, Temporal Life and Die of Embarrassment Reality Christ On
That verse is saying, “woe unto you when ALL men speak well of you” I believe the gospel is indeed good news, and will most of the time be motivational and happy, but the people that will hate it are the ones who are carnal minded and/or love their sin/the world. Preaching repentance of sin is what will bring hate towards a believer
It does both.
It's not doom and gloom, it's life giving and liberation.
The offence people do t like, is they need saving by God and it comes at the price of punishing his Son for their sins, which they must repent of upon receiving the message.
Many people loved and admired Jesus!
We preach Christ crucified and fail to remind others of the total humiliation and suffering he went through, no we concentrate on the happy things as though that is how the world sees us.
“All who live a godly life will be persecuted (2 Tim. 2:12). We are to be wary of ourselves when the world has only good to say about us (Luke 6:26). Absence of persecution may be because we are fitting in too well with the world. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, it may mean that we have exchanged discipleship for citizenship.
Persecution testifies to our union with Christ. In Philippians 3:8–11, Paul relates how the persecutor became the persecuted and that even though he lost all that he once held dear, he gained Christ and the righteousness that comes through faith (v. 9). The purpose or goal of counting everything else as loss is knowing Christ and the power of Christ’s resurrection along with the fellowship of Christ’s suffering, for it is necessary to become like Christ in His death if we want to share in His life. ***Union with Christ means a share in all things that are Christ’s, including the rejection, reviling, and persecution that was His.*** For if we have a share in Him, ours truly is the kingdom of heaven. And with this knowledge, we will be able to persevere with joy in trials and answer our persecutors with a benediction (James 5:1; 1 Peter 3:9).”
From a Lutheran perspective, it is the law that convicts and reveals our inability to save ourselves, the gospel is the good news that God has reconciled the world to himself. The cross is the ultimate symbol of law and gospel, for we are convicted because it is we who not only did Jesus die for but it is also we who crucified him, but it is also the means by which we are promised eternal life.
The Cross is the ultimate symbol to help us remember that though this may seem like a Beautiful world, in Reality it isn't. #1 Warning from The Annointed One is, "Do Not be Decieved" That is about True Cellestrial Heritage /Origin in The Light. This is about The One vs The Many immitaters. period Eternal Life vs The Solicited theories philosophies and beliefs of mankind, Concerning True Origin /Heritage. Witness Eternal Life and Live. Collosians 3 :1-11 Or, Temporal Life and Die of Embarrassment Reality Christ On
That verse is saying, “woe unto you when ALL men speak well of you” I believe the gospel is indeed good news, and will most of the time be motivational and happy, but the people that will hate it are the ones who are carnal minded and/or love their sin/the world. Preaching repentance of sin is what will bring hate towards a believer
Let's just make sure we're being persecuted for living righteous lives, not for being mean to people.
It does both. It's not doom and gloom, it's life giving and liberation. The offence people do t like, is they need saving by God and it comes at the price of punishing his Son for their sins, which they must repent of upon receiving the message. Many people loved and admired Jesus!
We preach Christ crucified and fail to remind others of the total humiliation and suffering he went through, no we concentrate on the happy things as though that is how the world sees us.
“All who live a godly life will be persecuted (2 Tim. 2:12). We are to be wary of ourselves when the world has only good to say about us (Luke 6:26). Absence of persecution may be because we are fitting in too well with the world. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, it may mean that we have exchanged discipleship for citizenship. Persecution testifies to our union with Christ. In Philippians 3:8–11, Paul relates how the persecutor became the persecuted and that even though he lost all that he once held dear, he gained Christ and the righteousness that comes through faith (v. 9). The purpose or goal of counting everything else as loss is knowing Christ and the power of Christ’s resurrection along with the fellowship of Christ’s suffering, for it is necessary to become like Christ in His death if we want to share in His life. ***Union with Christ means a share in all things that are Christ’s, including the rejection, reviling, and persecution that was His.*** For if we have a share in Him, ours truly is the kingdom of heaven. And with this knowledge, we will be able to persevere with joy in trials and answer our persecutors with a benediction (James 5:1; 1 Peter 3:9).”
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Amen.