Comments on: The Pain of the Cross

By: Notso

Notso — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:54:41 +0000

Oh how I hate it when i forget html code... Sorry for th dropped links Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate’ Riding the Tail of the Dragon

By: Notso

Notso — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:49:38 +0000

Wasn’t trying to point out any errors – in fact I thought I was committing heresy in my feeble attempt to explain my thoughts. I appreciate your ponderings as they cause me to ponder as well. I’m reading through Packer’s ‘Knowing God’ and have had similar stirrings – God’s majesty is something I easily dismiss or don’t understand at all and I am grieved at the thought. Also, just ordered another book – ‘Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate’ – by Bridges. I read the table of contents and it was like getting hit in the stomach with each topic listed because I struggle (or don’t) with each one! Oh how I look forward to the “time” after Christ’s return…

Tail of the Dragon – how can I resist?! You have to check this out

By: Rong

Rong — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:23:01 +0000

Thanks for pointing out my errors – wasn’t trying to be a heretic by putting Christ back on the cross.
I think I was trying to wrestle with the enormity of my sin from Christs perspective. I may “know” that Christ paid for all of my sins (Past, Present, Future) in that one act that from our perspective happened over two millennium ago. But from the time-line that I live in, the sin that I just now at this very instance committed, was one of the reasons the nails pierced his flesh. The other day I was having a personal revelation of how I need to be more aware of the magnitude and gravity of my daily short comings.
Too often I go about my day resting in Gods mercy without being grateful for the price that was paid. I was attempting to correct a spiritual character flaw. I hope that may shed more light on what I so poorly attempted.

By the way – nice to hear that you’re still alive.
Tail of the Dragon some time in the Spring. Let me know what you think your calendar will look like.

By: Notso

Notso — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:07:41 +0000

Hmm. Interesting, mind expanding exercise. I too struggle with getting my brain around this concept and cannot resist commenting. My first thought – God is. As you point out, everything to God is present tense. He doesn’t look back or forward – even to the cross. The only way my feeble mind can relate to this concept is that God “sees” every point in our time continuum AND every detail (sub-atomic level to universal scale). I guess that is a definition of “is” on the God scale. Second point, you don’t put Christ back on the cross. When He gave his earthly life as a perfect sacrifice, my grasp of it is that He did it “once for all” (Rom 6:10) until this world passes and His kingdom is established. He took into account all the sin of all the believers that were yet to come – see end of Heb 9 thru first of Heb 10. So the sins we struggle with daily are already covered. Our job is to live up to that reality – to actively take part in our sanctification in this this life – to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling”.