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Re: Lesson Study #9 - Seeing Through a Glass DARKLY
[Re: Johann]
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03/02/07 04:56 PM
03/02/07 04:56 PM
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For example, do we obey the speed limit all the time? If not, do we only disregard it when God commands us to do so?
Both my foster son and I have driven way above the speed limit. In all the cases you mentioned, I can see how God could require you to break the speed limit. Fortunately for you, your human government agreed with your assessment. But what if they gave you a ticket anyway? Or if they threw you in jail? (In the U.S., you can go to jail if you exceed a certain speed.) Would you still do what you did? Would you to it happily, and rejoice that you were able to do God's bidding, regardless of the temporal consequences?
By God's grace,
Arnold
1 John 5:11-13
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.
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Re: Lesson Study #9 - Seeing Through a Glass DARKLY
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03/03/07 02:00 AM
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For example, do we obey the speed limit all the time? If not, do we only disregard it when God commands us to do so?
Both my foster son and I have driven way above the speed limit. In all the cases you mentioned, I can see how God could require you to break the speed limit. Fortunately for you, your human government agreed with your assessment. But what if they gave you a ticket anyway? Or if they threw you in jail? (In the U.S., you can go to jail if you exceed a certain speed.) Would you still do what you did? Would you to it happily, and rejoice that you were able to do God's bidding, regardless of the temporal consequences? Some questions are difficult to answer. In certain countries the law permits you to break the speed limit in emergencies, and the police know this law too. But one of my sons told me of a voluteer fireman who had a light blinker on top of his pickup to be used when on his way to a fire. He experienced how he turned on this blinker too if he notice the police in the vicinity when he was driving too fast. Was that a true emergency?
"Here is a last piece of advice. If you believe in goodness and if you value the approval of God, fix your minds on the things which are holy and right and pure and beautiful and good. Model your conduct on what you have learned from me, on what I have told you and shown you, and you will find the God of peace will be with you."
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