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Conference yukon::christian_v7

Title:The CHRISTIAN Notesfile
Notice:Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165
Moderator:ICTHUS::YUILLEON
Created:Tue Feb 16 1993
Last Modified:Fri May 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:962
Total number of notes:42902

616.0. "In whom I am...well?" by N2DEEP::SHALLOW (Subtract L, invert W) Tue Oct 25 1994 10:47

    In an attempt at continued self examination, the following verse is a
    guide for what is expected. (I think?) Matthew 3:17:
    
    And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I
    am well pleased.
    
    So, in a hypothetical situation (since God sees us through Jesus), what
    would He say of you? For me, it has been...
    
    This is my beloved son, in whom I am...well.?.?.pleased.
    
    It used to be;
    
    This is my beloved son, in whom I am...well?.?.?...in whom I am.
    
    To have Jesus as our "measuring point", we all fall far short of the
    glory of God. But thank God, He makes the changes day to day, and
    eventually we will see what God sees.
    
    Recently, I heard a teaching on the refining process of gold. The heat
    is turned up, and the dross floats to the surface, and is removed. The
    one doing the refining knows when He has cleaned out the impurities,
    when He looks into the gold, and sees His own reflection, clear, and
    unblemished, like a mirror. Awesome, huh?
    
    In His Love, only by His grace,
    
    Bob
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616.1ICTHUS::YUILLEThou God seest meTue Oct 25 1994 11:3411
Thanks Bob .... His love is so great... Seated up there with Him, and we 
don't even know it, because our eyes so easily fall down below.

Until we hear "Well done, good and faithful servant", to which we respond 
"You mean ME???!!!", as in Matthew 25:37-39 and Luke 17:10 ... "We are 
unworthy servants; we have only done our duty." - if only we could have done 
more, but ewven then, it could never reach what He merits from us...

I'm so glad He sees us with different eyes from the ones we use.

							Andrew
616.2BIRDEE::JENNISONHis mercy endures foreverTue Oct 25 1994 12:4810
>> Until we hear "Well done, good and faithful servant", to which we respond 
>> "You mean ME???!!!", as in Matthew 25:37-39 and Luke 17:10 ... "We are 



	Andrew, what translation are you using ?  I've checked my Good
	News bible, and can't find that response in either verse you	
	mentioned above...

	;-)
616.3;-)ICTHUS::YUILLEThou God seest meTue Oct 25 1994 13:1110
�	Andrew, what translation are you using ?  I've checked my Good

Uh, welllll, it's a private version, who's full title is : 
	'Colloquially Outlawed Paraphrase Of Unusual Terminology'
commonly referred to as the 'copout' version, and alternatively titled :
	Better News For The Intellectually Challenged

					phew!  We *do* sweat in the UK...

								&
616.4It was Him really!REOELF::PRICEBTue Oct 25 1994 13:429
    Andrew
    
    I think I may have read that version - actually Keith Green made a
    similar sort of response on 'Sheep and Goats'
    
    The fact is that we all cast our crowns before Jesus anyway so any
    credit we may be given will be passed straight over to Him
    
    Ben
616.5Amen...ICTHUS::YUILLEThou God seest meTue Oct 25 1994 13:460