You can't understand the Bible without understanding what the people in this video are talking about.
You can't understand the Christian faith without understanding what the people in this video are talking about.
You can't escape the quicksand of scrupulosity and religious OCD without understanding what the people in this video are talking about.
Yeah, I know. It's a lot to get your head around. But the problem we face is that while we know all about the Law- we encounter it every day we live- the Gospel, as they say in the video- is strange to us. It's foreign to us. It's something we could never have imagined. It comes to us from outside of ourselves. It takes us by surprise.
And the thing is... it helps exactly because it is outside of us. It takes us away from the futile job of trying to somehow fix ourselves. For the first time, it lets us be honest with ourselves and with God. And... SURPRISE! We find that by keeping our eyes off of ourselves, and on the One Who is outside of us, we are healed and made like Him.
That's something that is never completed in this life. In fact, God, in His wisdom, hides our progress from us so that we don't fall back into the trap of looking into ourselves and trying to fix what's broken. Instead, the answer is always to keep our eyes not on the condition of our hearts, but on Him- because it's then that He can fix us. Only He can heal us. We cannot heal ourselves!
Never in your life will you encounter anything as important for you to understand and to bear in mind than the distinction between Law and Gospel.
You can't understand the Christian faith without understanding what the people in this video are talking about.
You can't escape the quicksand of scrupulosity and religious OCD without understanding what the people in this video are talking about.
Yeah, I know. It's a lot to get your head around. But the problem we face is that while we know all about the Law- we encounter it every day we live- the Gospel, as they say in the video- is strange to us. It's foreign to us. It's something we could never have imagined. It comes to us from outside of ourselves. It takes us by surprise.
And the thing is... it helps exactly because it is outside of us. It takes us away from the futile job of trying to somehow fix ourselves. For the first time, it lets us be honest with ourselves and with God. And... SURPRISE! We find that by keeping our eyes off of ourselves, and on the One Who is outside of us, we are healed and made like Him.
That's something that is never completed in this life. In fact, God, in His wisdom, hides our progress from us so that we don't fall back into the trap of looking into ourselves and trying to fix what's broken. Instead, the answer is always to keep our eyes not on the condition of our hearts, but on Him- because it's then that He can fix us. Only He can heal us. We cannot heal ourselves!
Never in your life will you encounter anything as important for you to understand and to bear in mind than the distinction between Law and Gospel.
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