Sometimes people are careless and speak disparagingly of all human righteousness, as if there were no such thing that pleased God. They often cite Isaiah 64:6 which says our righteousness is as filthy rags. It is true – gloriously true – that none of God’s people, before or after the cross, would be accepted by an immaculately holy God if the perfect righteousness of Christ were not imputed to us (Romans 5:19; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Corinthians 5:21). But that does not mean that God does not produce in those “justified” people (before and after the cross) an experiential righteousness that is not “filthy rags.” In fact, He does; and this righteousness is precious to God and is required, not as the ground of our justification (which is the righteousness of Christ only), but as an evidence of our being truly justified children of God.

John Piper

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Dairy		Crockpot, Poultry	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

12		Tortillas – cut into 6 or 8 pieces each
4	c	Coarsely chopped cooked chicken or turkey
10 3/4	oz	Can condensed cream of chicken soup
10 3/4	oz	Can condensed cream of mushroom soup
7	oz	Can green chili salsa
1	c	Dairy sour cream
1	tb	Onion; grated
1 1/2	c	Grated cheddar cheese.

INSTRUCTIONS

Lightly grease sides and bottom of slow-cooking pot. Arrange alternate
layers of tortillas with chicken and mixture of undiluted soups, salsa,
sour cream, and onion. cover and cook on low 4 to 5 hours. Sprinkle with
cheese and cook on low another 15 or 20 minutes. Serve with orange and
avocado salad, plus additional warm tortillas.
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 266 by James and Susan Kirkland
<kirkland@gj.net> on Nov 17, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Only with Jesus can you reach your full potential”

When we are tempted and seek to know and love God, and like Moses long to see His glory, and out of that occupation of our minds have no further love for that previous temptation, we have experienced something of the reality of the very highest form of freedom from sin. It is one thing to love sin and to force ourselves to quit it; it is another thing to hate sin because love for God is so gripping that the sin no longer appeals. The latter is repentance; the former is reform. It is repentance that God requires. Repentance is “a change of mind.” To love and yet quit it is not the same as hating it and quitting it. Your supposed victory over a sin may be simple displacement. You may love one sin so much (such as your pride) that you will curtail another more embarrassing sin which you also love. This may look spiritual, but there is nothing of God in it. Natural men do it every day.

Jim Elliff