Wow, that was a really great conversation! Lots of great tidbits and takeaways! I’m very much relating to the grinch song right now: You're the king of sinful sots, Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch, Your soul is an appalling dump heap A quick gospel-pick-me up at the end after hitting the commandments hard might be a nice addition next time… :) It also makes me wonder since Jesus kept all of the commandments perfectly, how was it not completely obvious to everyone else that he was the only person living among them that was perfect?? It just seems so different than what we do and our culture. Makes it hard to live that way…
Thanks for the encouragement for more gospel. The Jesus being perfect question to me has a yes or no answer. The Bible encourage to let our light shine, so that men may see our good deeds, but at the same time you have Mary and Joseph completely overlooking Jesus keeping the third commandment when he stays behind when he’s 12 years old. To me, it’s perfectly plausible that the perfection of Jesus could be hidden because people were not looking for perfection in terms of loving God and loving neighbor, but instead looking at perfection in terms of all the hedge rules that the Jewish religious system had set up. Not unlike today, people have all their ideas as to what is righteous and people forget the basic equation: love God, love neighbor. Pastor Ruddat
@@castingnetsThat makes sense. Maybe another way to ask it… if Jesus were on earth today in the same form as he was 2000 yrs ago, would he seem like the other (faithful) Christians today doing God’s will (except without sin), or does the trust and reverence for God that God requires in the first commandment look so dramatically different from what we can achieve that we cannot comprehend what that should look like? Is there anything we can look at in our world today and say is a better example than just a glimpse of where we should be?
Wow, that was a really great conversation! Lots of great tidbits and takeaways!
I’m very much relating to the grinch song right now:
You're the king of sinful sots,
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
A quick gospel-pick-me up at the end after hitting the commandments hard might be a nice addition next time… :)
It also makes me wonder since Jesus kept all of the commandments perfectly, how was it not completely obvious to everyone else that he was the only person living among them that was perfect??
It just seems so different than what we do and our culture. Makes it hard to live that way…
Thanks for the encouragement for more gospel. The Jesus being perfect question to me has a yes or no answer. The Bible encourage to let our light shine, so that men may see our good deeds, but at the same time you have Mary and Joseph completely overlooking Jesus keeping the third commandment when he stays behind when he’s 12 years old. To me, it’s perfectly plausible that the perfection of Jesus could be hidden because people were not looking for perfection in terms of loving God and loving neighbor, but instead looking at perfection in terms of all the hedge rules that the Jewish religious system had set up. Not unlike today, people have all their ideas as to what is righteous and people forget the basic equation: love God, love neighbor. Pastor Ruddat
@@castingnetsThat makes sense. Maybe another way to ask it… if Jesus were on earth today in the same form as he was 2000 yrs ago, would he seem like the other (faithful) Christians today doing God’s will (except without sin), or does the trust and reverence for God that God requires in the first commandment look so dramatically different from what we can achieve that we cannot comprehend what that should look like? Is there anything we can look at in our world today and say is a better example than just a glimpse of where we should be?