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

Brownlow North, the Scottish lay evangelist of the 19th century, has a sermon on this subject in which he calls this sin, the sin of spiritual intermarriage, the worst sin, the most catastrophic sin of all the sins identified in the Bible that can be committed by a Christian man or woman. In his own words: “In reading my Bible I find no sin there recorded, if we except the sin of our first parents, which has brought greater curse upon the earth, or which is more positively forbidden, both in the Old and New Testament” (Wilt Thou Go with This man? p. 112). For, you see, that sin corrupts the stream of believing life and may lead to the damnation of thousands, as it did many times in the Bible.
Robert Rayburn

The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of sympathy. The New Testament view is that He bore our sin not by sympathy, but by identification. He was made to be sin. Our sins are removed because of the death of Jesus, and the explanation of His death is His obedience to His Father, not His sympathy with us. We are acceptable with God not because we have obeyed, or because we have promised to give up things, but because of the death of Christ, and in no other way. We say that Jesus Christ came to reveal the Fatherhood of God, the lovingkindness of God; the New Testament says He came to bear away the sin of the world.
Oswald Chambers

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    LENT

    BASIC R.C. BELIEF The name given to the 40 week days before Easter, starting Ash Wednesday. During Lent Roman Catholics are supposed to undergo some voluntary privation and penance in anticipation of Christ’s sufferings.

    CHRISTIAN COMMENT There is no scriptural warrant for such a period; many Roman Catholics don’t give up things of consequence, and those who do feel this aids in salvation. This concept of privation has resulted in pre-Lenten festivals: Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) and carnival (carne val, farewell to meat).

    In pagan Babylon, 40 days were observed weeping for Tammuz (Nimrod), that he would rise from the dead and cause Spring to begin. With other pagan customs, this became a part of the Church. Msgr. O’Sullivan in EXTERNALS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (p. 209) says, “From about the 4th century, Lent became a fast of forty days.”

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