The people of the covenant in the Old Testament were made up of Israel according to the flesh – an ethnic, national, religious people containing “children of the flesh” and “children of God” [see Rom. 9:6-8; Gal. 4:22-28]. Therefore it was fitting that circumcision was given to all the children of the flesh. But the people of the new covenant, called the Church of Jesus Christ, is being built in a fundamentally different way. The church is not based on any ethnic, national distinctives but on the reality of faith alone, by grace alone in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Church is not a continuation of Israel as a whole; it is a continuation of the true Israel, the remnant – not the children of the flesh, but the children of promise. Therefore, it is not fitting that the children born merely according to the flesh receive the sign of the covenant, baptism.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy		Meat	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4		(8-oz) lamb shoulder chops
2	tb	Caribe (crushed N. New Mexico hot red chile)
4	oz	Blue cheese; crumbled
		Fresh ground black pepper
1	c	Double-strength beef broth
12		Very small; thin-skinned potatoes; peeled

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350. Trim excess fat from chops then arrange in a single
layer in a shallow baking pan. Evenly divide caribe among chops, crushing
it into both sides of each one. Sprinkle chops with cheese and several
grinds of black pepper, then pour broth over all. Bake, uncovered, 1-3/4
hours, basting generously every 30 minutes. Then cook potatoes in boiling
water about 20 minutes or until tender. Drain and arrange around chops.
Spoon lots of pan juices over potatoes; continue to bake 15 minutes longer
or until chops are fork-tender. Serve sauce separately to spoon over chops.
Makes 4 servings.
From the <Hotter Than Hell!>, by Jane Butel, ISBN 0-89586-646-3
(0-89586-542-4 paperback).  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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