Your obedience is not the bedrock of your assurance. Given the remains of sin within us it can be profoundly difficult to give a clear measure of our own spiritual growth. In fact I have been known to argue that the better we get the worse we seem to ourselves. That is, as we grow in grace we grow in our capacity to see our own sin more deeply. Which the devil delights to use to discourage us. It is Christ’s obedience that secures for us our eternity.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains	German	Beef, German, Soups/stews	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/4	c	Shortening
3	lb	Rump Roast, Boneless
2	c	Onions, Sliced
1/4	c	Unbleached Flour
2	tb	Salt
2	tb	Sugar
		Pepper, To Taste
2	ts	Mustard, Dry
1/2	ts	Celery Seed
1/4	c	Water
1	lb	Tomatoes, (1 can)

INSTRUCTIONS

Melt shortening in a Dutch oven.  Add the meat and brown on all sides.
Place the onions on top of the meat.  Mix the flour and seasonings with 1/4
c water.  Blend with the tomatoes and add the misture to the dutch oven.
Bake at 325=F8F, about 2 hours, until the meat is fork-tender. Serve with
oven-browned potatoes.
Kath Pickell
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #291
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 14:00:35 -0600
From: netdir@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)

A Message from our Provider:

“There is hope. There is Jesus”

If Christ has borne whatever our sins deserved, and by doing so has satisfied God’s justice to the full, then God cannot, in justice, punish us for sin, for that would require the full payment from Christ and yet demand part of it from us... God does not chastise us as a means of satisfaction for sin, but for rebuke and caution, to bring us to mourn for sin committed, and to beware of the like. It must always be remembered that, although Christ has borne the punishment of sin, and although God has forgiven the saints for their sins, yet God may correct His people in a fatherly way for their sin. Christ endured the great shower of wrath, the black and dismal hours of displeasure for sin. That which falls upon us is as a sun-shine shower, warmth with wetness, wetness with the warmth of His love, to make us fruitful and humble… That which the believer suffers for sin is not penal, arising from vindictive justice, but medicinal, arising from a fatherly love. It is His medicine, not His punishment; His chastisement, not His sentence; His correction, not His condemnation.

Samuel Bolton