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

Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this – namely accommodation. The evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age. First, there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many who call themselves evangelicals hold a weakened view of the Bible and no longer affirm the truth of all the Bible teaches – truth not only in religious matters but in the areas of science and history and morality… This accommodation has been costly, first in destroying the power of the Scriptures to confront the spirit of our age; second, in allowing the further slide of our culture. Thus we must say with tears that it is the evangelical accommodation to the world spirit around us, to the wisdom of this age, which removes the evangelical church from standing against the breakdown of our culture.
Francis Schaeffer

If you ask a typical evangelical Christian today what the fatherhood of God means to them, they would probably almost all say, “It means that He loves me, that He will take care of me and guide me and forgive me and take me home to live with Him forever some day.” And this would be true – wonderfully true! ... But is it not striking that the most famous of all biblical commands relating to child and father is surely the fifth commandment, Exodus 20:12, "Honor your father and your mother;" and yet very few people today would say that the fatherhood of God implies to them that God is to be honored and revered and venerated and held in sacred respect.
John Piper

Bible – Finnish 1938 Psalms Chapter 143:1-12.

Index: Finnish 1938

 

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143:1 Daavidin virsi. Herra, kuule minun rukoukseni, ota korviisi minun anomiseni. Vastaa minulle uskollisuudessasi ja vanhurskaudessasi.

143:2 Älä käy tuomiolle palvelijasi kanssa, sillä ei yksikään elävä ole vanhurskas sinun edessäsi.

143:3 Sillä vihollinen vainoaa minun sieluani, hän on ruhjonut minun elämäni maahan ja pannut minut pimeään niinkuin ammoin kuolleet.

143:4 Minun henkeni nääntyy minussa, sydäntäni kouristaa minun rinnassani.

143:5 Minä muistelen muinaisia päiviä, tutkistelen kaikkia sinun töitäsi ja ajattelen sinun kättesi tekoja.

143:6 Minä levitän käteni sinun puoleesi. Niinkuin janoinen maa, niin minun sieluni halajaa sinua. Sela.

143:7 Vastaa minulle pian, Herra, minun henkeni nääntyy. Älä peitä minulta kasvojasi, etten tulisi niiden kaltaiseksi, jotka hautaan vaipuvat.

143:8 Suo minun varhain kuulla sinun armoasi, sillä sinuun minä turvaan. Osoita minulle tie, jota minun tulee käydä, sillä sinun tykösi minä ylennän sieluni.

143:9 Pelasta minut vihollisistani, Herra. Sinun tykösi minä pyrin suojaan.

143:10 Opeta minut tekemään sitä, mikä sinulle kelpaa, sillä sinä olet minun Jumalani. Sinun hyvä Henkesi johdattakoon minua tasaista maata.

143:11 Herra, virvoita nimesi tähden, vanhurskaudessasi auta minun sieluni ahdistuksesta.

143:12 Tuhoa minun viholliseni armosi tähden ja hukuta kaikki, jotka minun sieluani ahdistavat, sillä minä olen sinun palvelijasi.