Name: Pumpkin Ravioli Soup
Ingredients: 1 lb Spinach; 2 tb Salad oil; 1 lg Onion; julienned; 1 Clove garlic; minced; 4 qt Chicken broth; regular strength; 2 lg Carrots; julienned; PUMPKIN FILLED RAVIOLI; see recipe; 1/2 c Pumpkin seeds, roasted; salted to taste

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

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats, Grains		Pumpkin, Pasta	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Spinach
2	tb	Salad oil
1	lg	Onion; julienned
1		Clove garlic; minced
4	qt	Chicken broth; regular strength
2	lg	Carrots; julienned
		PUMPKIN FILLED RAVIOLI; see recipe
1/2	c	Pumpkin seeds, roasted; salted to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

^ Discard tough spinach stems and leaves. Cut leaves crosswise into 1/4
inch strips; wash well and drain. Set aside. ^ In an 8 to 10 quart pan,
combine oil, onion and garlic; stir over medium-high heat until onion is
limp.  Add broth and carrots; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover; and
simmer until carrots are tender to bite, about 5 minutes. ^ Add ravioli;
simmer, covered, about 3 minutes. Add spinach and simmer uncovered, until
ravioli are heated through, 1 to 2 minutes longers or 3 if ravioli are
frozen.  Carefully lift out ravioli with slotted spoon and place in large
soup bowls (about 3 or 4 per serving).  Ladle soup over ravioli. Offer
seeds to garnish at table. Makes 12 or more first course servings; 6 to 12
main course servings. (Second helpings are assumed.) [mcRecipe 22 Sep 96
patH]
Recipe By     : Sunset November 1989
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #223
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 08:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: PatH <phannema@wizard.ucr.edu>
NOTES : Serve immediately.  Serve fresh.

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