God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The biblical view of drunkenness – the prototype of all addictions – is that it is always called sin, never sickness. Drunkenness is against God and His law. Scripture is unwavering in this teaching and relentless in its illustrations. Noah (Gen. 9:18-27), Lot (Gen 19:30-38), Elah (1 Kings 16:9), and Nabal (1 Sam. 25:36) all portray the moral foolishness of being mastered by alcohol.
Surely Paul could have made the gospel more palatable – and less dangerous – by saying it was about something else. Something cleaner and less ridiculous than the cross. Something more glorious. Less disgusting. He didn’t do that, though. “I decided,” Paul said, “to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified” (1 Cor. 2:2). In the face of the worst cultural prejudice imaginable, he fixed the entire gospel squarely and immovably on the fact that Jesus was tacked to a stauros and left to die. If he had been trying to find a surefire way to turn first-century people off from his “good news,” he couldn’t have done better than that! So why did he do it? It’s simple. He did it because he knew that leaving the cross out, or running past it with a glance, or making it peripheral to the gospel, or allowing anything else to displace it at the center of the gospel would make it, finally, no gospel at all.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Sift together three times: cake flour, cocoa, and
1/4 cup of the sugar. Set aside. Sift remaining 1 cup sugar and set aside.
Whip egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar. Continue beating until
whites are stiff but not dry. Fold in sugar a little at a time. Fold in
vanilla and almond extract. Sift flour-cocoa mixture over batter (1/4 at a
time) and fold into batter. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan
and bake for 45 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Invert the
tube pan and let cake cool.
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