Sometimes We Need to Hear the Hard Things

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There may be places in this video where one is tempted to entertain the thought of "I want nothing to do with a God like that"!. Even Jesus' disciples had a problem with a hard thing, and in response to Jesus asking them if they too wanted to leave him, answered, "Where else could we go?" Watch the video through to its ending, and remember we are not there yet. We are not yet at the place of glorification and actual righteousness. We still measure from within the chasm of our actual unrighteousness and the righteousness of Christ. We measure justice and holiness from a place of having never known anything but the presence of sin.

 

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There may be places in this video where one is tempted to entertain the thought of "I want nothing to do with a God like that"!. Even Jesus' disciples had a problem with a hard thing, and in response to Jesus asking them if they too wanted to leave him, answered, "Where else could we go?" Watch the video through to its ending, and remember we are not there yet. We are not yet at the place of glorification and actual righteousness. We still measure from within the chasm of our actual unrighteousness and the righteousness of Christ. We measure justice and holiness from a place of having never known anything but the presence of sin.

I love several things he says, all of which relate in one way or another to the theme I keep trying (and failing) to get across, concerning the infinite 'distance' between God's being and ours. "We don't know who God is. ....We really don't know what it means that God is holy. That is so foreign to our experience, so alien to our own existence, that we have almost no grasp whatsoever about the character and nature of God. In fact, we are so baffled by God's holiness, that, more often than not, we find it offensive!"

Then he goes on to say that we have little understanding of the heinousness of our sin. Sin is so much a part of our experience, that we excuse it, and even seem to think that because it is so human of us, that God who made us and planned this is somehow obligated to overlook it.

 

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I love several things he says, all of which relate in one way or another to the theme I keep trying (and failing) to get across, concerning the infinite 'distance' between God's being and ours. "We don't know who God is. ....We really don't know what it means that God is holy. That is so foreign to our experience, so alien to our own existence, that we have almost no grasp whatsoever about the character and nature of God. In fact, we are so baffled by God's holiness, that, more often than not, we find it offensive!"

Then he goes on to say that we have little understanding of the heinousness of our sin. Sin is so much a part of our experience, that we excuse it, and even seem to think that because it is so human of us, that God who made us and planned this is somehow obligated to overlook it.

Absolutely. That;s why there are people who don't even cringe, or think twice about saying "If God only elected to save some that makes him evil and unjust." Why some dare to say that Jesus was born with a sin nature just as we are. Why it is impossible to reason Reformed theology with an Arminianist, Pelagianist, or semi-Plelagianist, or Unitarian.

Imagine a world where there was no sin. Not in us or anyone else in the world, and one in which there were none of the effects of sin. We can't. It is beyond what our sinful nature and life and world are able to do. And yet, we believe it and persevere (by the grace of God alone) towards our hope.

 

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"How can we enjoy heaven knowing some of our loved ones are in hell?"

Revelation 21:4 KJV
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

I would take it that those former things God will also wipe away...that is.. our memories

 

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I would take it that those former things God will also wipe away... our memories

Sproul has a bit of a different take on it, that doesn't require a supposition that the only way we don't have sorrow is if all our memories are gone. If all memory of this life is gone, how will we remember the glory of our rescue? Watch the video when you get time. You can watch on You Tube by clicking the "watch on You Tube button below the video.

 

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Sproul has a bit of a different take on it, that doesn't require a supposition that the only way we don't have sorrow is if all our memories are gone. If all memory of this life is gone, how will we remember the glory of our rescue? Watch the video when you get time. You can watch on You Tube by clicking the "watch on You Tube button below the video.

I did watch the whole video. I guess I missed the point you are bringing up.