By His grace, what the radical life of Christ should look in an American context!

believes that when we give our word we should do everything in our power to keep it, even if it costs us. Mat 23:16-22 @WeeManWest

wonders if it is more evident to others that sin/death is reigning in his life or if it is grace/Christ reigning. Rom 5:21 @WeeManWest

thinks we lack thanksgiving because we are looking at our circumstances from our perspective and not God’s. Psa 54:6 @WeeManWest

Matthew 23:13 The scribes and Pharisees taught in such a way that they prevented people from entering the kingdom of heaven and were not even entering themselves. They taught traditions and rules that kept people from coming to God. Their system was about the rigors of religion rather than about getting to know God Himself.

Matthew 23:22 A loophole had been invented to allow people to be unfaithful to their oaths. If we make an oath, regardless of what we have sworn it upon, we should keep it for the glory and honor of God. God keeps His word and if we are His so also should we.

Matthew 23:24 We tend to focus on making sure we’ve given our full measure of 10 % to God. Yet, God is not as interested in that as He is in that we are just and merciful in all of our dealing with other people. We tend to do the least we are responsible for doing.

Romans 5:14 Death spread to all men because all men sinned and thus death reigned on the earth. This section is about authority.

Romans 5:17 Death reigned because of Adam’s sin, yet because of Christ’s free gift of justification to us, we reign in this life through Christ. His authority is our authority. We reign with Him in the here and now.

Romans 5:21 Sin reigned in death but now grace reigns through righteousness. The flows from the righteousness of Abraham that is by grace through faith…hence grace reigns. God is so gracious to us. If we really could see just how sinful we really are we would be humbled and thankful that God has been as gracious to us as He is.

Psalm 54:1 There is power in His name for His name is the only name under heaven given among men by which we may be saved (Acts 4:12) .

Psalm 54:3 We face so many people every day who do not set God before themselves. He is in none of their thoughts or actions unless they get in a real bind and then they cry out to Him.

Unfortunately, we encounter a lot of people like this in church and if we’re really honest in the deep corners of our hearts we will admit that we ourselves are one of these people as well.

Psalm 54:6 Thanksgiving is the one thing that should flow free and easy from the life of the believer. If we aren’t thankful it is only because we have lost His perspective and are instead dwelling on our own perspective on our circumstances.

Numbers 15:15 God prevented the persecution of the traveler or visitor in the midst of Israel. The same laws were to apply to all men. There must be equality.

Numbers 15:30 The law was different for the person who was in rebellion against God. Such a person was to be cut off from Israel without a sacrifice. This is a sin leading to death.

Numbers 15:39 We should help ourselves by placing in our path reminders that we are to keep the word of God and not follow after our own hearts and eyes. We so easily follow our own desires right into trouble then come back to God for a bailout. We need a constant reminder that we need God’s perspective on our lives.

Numbers 16:11 Korah leads a rebellion against Aaron. Korah says that all men are holy and should not be kept from the tabernacle. Moses points out that it was not Aaron who set himself apart but rather it was God. Korah wasn’t grumbling against Aaron but against God.

God has done the same in our day in Christ. We are priests in Christ. We didn’t put ourselves there but God placed us in Christ. Those who speak against our special place are not our opponents, but rather in are rebellion against God.

Numbers 16:14 Moses was not a fault. If they had obeyed the Lord and gone into the promised land to begin with they would be claiming an inheritance. Because they failed to believe in God they have instead inherited dirt. This is the victim mentality! It always has to be someone else’s fault instead of your own!

Numbers 16:48 Aaron stood between the dead and the living to stop the plague. As if seeing Korah and Dathan and Abiran slain for their rebellion wasn’t enough, the congregation grumbles and rebels against Moses and Aaron once more. This time God plagues the congregation killing 14,700.

Christ, our High Priest, stands between the living and the dead stopping the plague of death due to our own sinful rebellion against God.

Numbers 17:10 God ordains the staff contest to show who is set apart by Himself as the priesthood. Aaron’s staff brings forth ripe almonds overnight.

This pictures Christ for us in that he hung himself on a rod and dead and yet where death was life came as Christ rose from the dead after being in the tomb. He is risen as our High Priest and His resurrection is the “sign for the rebels” that He truly is the High Priest chosen by God as watchman over our souls.