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

always reads this passage and is left totally convicted! Mat 25:31-47 @WeeManWest

thinks we should be thankful that Christ satisfied God’s justice rather than decrying how unfair His mercy seems. Psa 62:12 @WeeManWest

Matthew 25:37 I think here we see the righteous, not as those oblivious to their good works, although that may be partially the case, but rather as those so aware of their own wickedness and failure to do good that they are humbled by the mercy of God.

Matthew 25:44 These are they who had kept accounts of the good works they had done. Yet, the sum of their salvation is not in good works but in the mercy of a holy and just God.

Matthew 26:11 Poverty can always be used as an excuse NOT to do something that may be expensive or costly. We must realize that there will always be poor among us in this world until Christ’s age comes.

Matthew 26:16 Judas is lets himself out for hire to betray Jesus. It seems he was offended by Christ in the matter of the anointing at Bethany. I can’t help but wonder if Judas was breathing the word hypocrite under his breath on his way to betray Jesus.

Romans 9:6 Paul is making a very pertinent point for our day. We give unconditional support to a nation simply because they are called Israel. Paul makes the point that simple descent from Abraham isn’t what God is concerned about, nor is it what we should be concerned about.

Romans 9:8 The children of Abraham, the ones we should be concerned with are the ones who are children of promise, through faith.

Romans 9:16 Again, Paul touches on the sovereignty of God. God chose Jacob over Esau before they were ever born. God raised Pharoah up for the purpose of hardening his heart to show God’s power. God is the one who shows mercy, man doesn’t demand anything from God, nor does he inherit a birthright from God.

Romans 9:21 God has full right to take the same lump of clay and make both good and bad pots. Israel, the same lump, has produced a lineage of faith and a lineage of unbelief. God made them this way.

Romans 9:22 What if God chose to endure patiently the wickedness of those who were prepared for destruction in order to glorify Himself in those who were not? He is God and He is sovereign. He will show mercy to whom He will show mercy.

Romans 9:29 Paul knew prophetically what was to come for Israel and Jersualem. He knew desolation was coming. God mercifully left them with a remnant or they would have been utterly destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Romans 9:30 Gentiles were attaining what God had intended for Israel to attain, a righteousness by faith, not by works nor by lineage…but by faith alone.

Psalm 61:2 When we are overwhelmed and drowning the one refuge we may have is that we need led to the Rock that is higher than we are, our God who is above the fray.

Psalm 62:1 Our souls should wait silently for the salvation of God. We should wait for Him alone and trust in Him alone for our salvation.

Psalm 62:6 Though the entire world around us be shaken, we remain unshaken in the fortress that is our God.

Psalm 62:12 One thing we cannot miss in all of God’s mercy is that He is just. That is why Jesus is central and important. God’s justice had to be satisfied.

Numbers 33:53 After 40 years of wandering, God is giving them a place to possess and settle.

Numbers 33:55 The inhabitants that are not driven out in the conquest would remain as barbs and thorns to Israel. The same is true for us. Whatever remnants of our old life we allow to remain will continue to prick and inhibit our life in Christ until they are removed.

Numbers 35:6 The Levite cities were to be cities of refuge where people were to flee who believed a killing they had committed was done in self-defense or by accident.

Numbers 35:30 The death penalty was not taken lightly. The accused had right to trial and had to be convicted on solid evidence from multiple witnesses and even still had the right to flee to a city of refuge.