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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

If a doctor, able to help, were at the side of a sick person and promised to help him from his trouble and advised him how to combat his ailment or the poison he had taken, and if the sick person knew that the doctor could help him but nonetheless said: Oh, get out, I won’t accept your advice; you are no doctor, but a highwayman; I am not sick, nor have I taken poison; it will not hurt me; and if the sick person wanted to kill the doctor, would you not say that this fellow, who persecuted and wanted to kill his doctor, was not only sick but demented, mad, and irrational as well?... But this spiritual madness – that we do not want to accept help when God’s Son wants to help us – is ten times worse. Should our Lord God not be angry and let hellfire, sulfur, and pitch rain upon such ingrates? For besides being sinners, we are also so wretched as to reject help and chase away and kill those who urge us to accept it.

Martin Luther

All that the old covenant was ever intended to do was to drive men to despair and then the despair to plead for mercy and grace from a kind and loving God... When an Old Testament person saw the Law for what it really was, a ministry of condemnation, a ministry of death, and when they were slain, as it were, and when they feared hell, and when they realized their sinfulness, and when the Law had done its work and they had a repentant heart and they came to God and pleaded for mercy and pleaded for grace and pleaded for forgiveness which they didn't deserve but which they pled for, and God in grace looked at them and forgave them, that work of transformation that occurred there was the Spirit of God's work. And He was applying the new covenant work of Christ retroactively to that penitent sinner. But it was the Spirit's work. Salvation any time whether in the Old Testament or the New Testament under the old covenant or the new covenant was, is, always will be the work of the Spirit who is none other than the Lord. And isn't it marvelous, the same God who wrote the Law is the same God who liberates the repentant sinner from the bondage of the Law?

John MacArthur

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Flavored Butters

January 23, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
		Butters	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

Parsley Butter Cream 3 or 4 tabespoons chopped parsley with sweet butter
and a little lemon juice. Chill. This is delicious on broiled steak or
fish.
Dill Butter Cream 1/2 pound soft sweet butter with 1 Tabelspoon minced
fresh dill, 1 tea lemon juice and a dash of Tabasco sauce. Serve at room
temperature.
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #230
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:12:45 +0000
From: Marina <thecollector@worldnet.att.net>

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