The Lord very frequently addresses us in the character of a husband… As He performs all the offices of a true and faithful husband, so He stipulates for love and conjugal chastity from us; that is, that we do not prostitute our souls to Satan… Therefore, as the purer and chaster the husband is, the more grievously is he offended when he sees his wife inclining to a rival; so the Lord, who has betrothed us to Himself in truth, declares that He burns with the hottest jealousy whenever, neglecting the purity of His holy marriage, we defile ourselves with abominable lusts, and especially when the worship of His Deity, which ought to have been most carefully kept unimpaired, is transferred to another, or adulterated with some superstition; since, in this way, we not only violate our plighted troth, but defile the nuptial couch, by giving access to adulterers.

John Calvin

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Meats, Grains		Main dish	3	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Sliced celery
1/2	c	Chopped onion
3	tb	Butter
1 1/2	c	Mayonnaise
1 1/2	c	Milk
2	tb	Lemon juice
		Salt and pepper to taste
6	c	Cooked chicken
2		5 oz. cans sliced water
		Chestnuts
2	c	Shredded Cheddar cheese

INSTRUCTIONS

Saute the celery and onion in the butter.  Pour into a large mixing bowl.
Add rest of ingredients.  Mix well.  Pour into greased 9 x 13 inch
casserole.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Randy Rigg
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #207
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:44:18 -0500
From: [email protected] (S.Pickell)

A Message from our Provider:

“I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess. #Corrie ten Boom”

God's holiness and righteous glory have been desecrated, defamed, and blasphemed by our sin. It is with a holy God that we have to do in our guilt! And there can be no justification, no reconciliation, no cleansing of our conscience, unless the holiness of God is honored and the defamation of His righteousness is repaired. The urgency of our problem with guilt is not that we feel miserable, but that God's name has been blasphemed. We live in a day with such a horrendously inflated view of human potential and such a miserably tiny view of God's holiness that we can scarcely understand what the real problem of guilt is. The real problem is not, 'How can God be loving and yet condemn people with such little sins?' The real problem is, 'How can God be righteous if He acquits such miserable sinners as we?' There can be no lasting remedy for guilt which does not deal with God's righteous indignation against sin. That's why there had to be a sacrifice. And not just any sacrifice, but the sacrifice of the Son of God! No one else, and no other act, could repair the defamation done to the glory of God by our sins. But when Jesus died for the glory of the Father, satisfaction was made. The glory was restored. Righteousness was demonstrated. Henceforth it is clear that when God, by grace, freely justifies the ungodly (Romans 4:5), He is not indifferent to the demands of justice. It is all based on the grand transaction between the Father and the Son on the morning of Good Friday at Calvary. No other gospel can take away our guilt because no other gospel corresponds to the cosmic proportions of our sin in relation to God.

John Piper