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Thesis: 2 Kinds of Kindness. 1 is polite and 1 is truly caring.
Thesis:
For Kids: Contagious Kindness - High Five Dominoes
Protestant Reformation
We are coming up to 500 years since the Protestant Reformation, an event that started small in several different places, but whose effects echo through our lives today.
The writings of Paul, and Romans and perhaps Galatians in particular.
Some of the Reformers, like Martin Luther, probably saw themselves like Paul, trying to teach the truth and battling against an older regime of religious leaders - Jews in Pauls' case, and Roman Catholics in Luther's.
One piece of the building conflict that sparked off the Reformation was the question of whether being a Christian meant the same thing as being a good, kind person.
500 years later, we can look back and say, no, just being a kind person does not automatically make you a Christian.
However, if those early disciples of Luther might look at us and wonder if we could say with our mouths one thing, but not always live out what we say we believe.
The truth is, every generation, maybe even every person, has to grapple with most of the aspects of faith that those Christians of the Reformation did 500 years ago.
Kindness defined
We:
2 Types of Kindness
1. Niceness, Small things done to show appreciation even if undeserved or unasked for.
2. Usefullness to God - Chrestotes - related to Christ, which means "annointed".
- Does God only use truly kind people?
- Or is true kindness the mark of being set apart as God's people?
God:
All have turned aside, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, there is not even one.”
All have turned aside, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, there is not even one.”
Worthless/Unkind/Unprofitable/Useless - No one God can use!
"None Is Righteous” from: (; )
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“There is no one who is righteous, not even one;
there is no one who has understanding,
there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned aside, together they have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness,
there is not even one.”
“Their throats are opened graves;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their lips.”
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery are in their paths,
and the way of peace they have not known.”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
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https://ref.ly/Ro3.9-18;nrsv
Paul's view of his own people:
"Unenlightened zeal" - heart in the right place but not going about it the right way.
Trying to do God's job and in doing so, not doing their own job - submitting to God's righteousness.
Alas, They are still useless by the Psalmist’s standards.
Salvation Is for All
Salvation Is for All
The Commands of God - How to Live as God’s People - How to have Eternal Life
Salvation Is for All
Say not in thy heart.
In thy heart is added by Paul.
The phrase say in the heart is a Hebraism for think, compare ; ; .
Usually of an evil thought.
Compare ; ; .
“The word is near you,
on your lips and in your heart”
(that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
11 The scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and is generous to all who call on him.
13 For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
14 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed?
And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard?
And how are they to hear without someone to proclaim him?
15 And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent?
As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Say not in thy heart.
In thy heart is added by Paul.
The phrase say in the heart is a Hebraism for think, compare ; ; .
Usually of an evil thought.
Compare ; ; .
Who shall ascend into heaven?
The Septuagint adds for us, and bring it to us, and hearing it we will do it.
To bring down.
Interpreting the Septuagint, and bring it to us.
7. Descend into the deep.
Rev., abyss.
Septuagint, Who shall pass through to beyond the sea?
See on .
Paul changes the phrase in order to adapt it to the descent of Christ into Hades.
The two ideas may be reconciled in the fact that the Jew conceived the sea as the abyss of waters on which the earth rested.
Compare .
Thus the ideas beyond the sea and beneath the earth coincide in designating the realm of the dead.
Compare Homer’s picture of the region of the dead beyond the Ocean-stream:
7. Descend into the deep.
Rev., abyss.
Septuagint, Who shall pass through to beyond the sea?
See on .
Paul changes the phrase in order to adapt it to the descent of Christ into Hades.
The two ideas may be reconciled in the fact that the Jew conceived the sea as the abyss of waters on which the earth rested.
Compare .
Thus the ideas beyond the sea and beneath the earth coincide in designating the realm of the dead.
Compare Homer’s picture of the region of the dead beyond the Ocean-stream:
To bring up.
There is no need.
He is already risen.
8.
The word is nigh thee.
Septuagint, Very nigh thee is the word.
The word is the whole subject-matter of the Gospel.
See ver.
9. Moses used it of the law.
See on .
The whole quotation in the Hebrew is as follows: “It (the commandment) is not in heaven, that ye should say, Who will ascend for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us hear it that we may do it?
And it is not beyond the sea, that ye should say, Who will go over for us beyond the sea, and bring it to us, and make us hear it that we may do it?
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