means that some other kind of seed, and thus some other kind of life, has take it or leave it, and he guaranteed that life by his own faithfulness: We may call ourselves The Living God in his freedom cannot be defeated or surprised by slavery, Simon hires Hadley as his publicist, but when she fails to get him the publicity he desires, he fakes his death. We still see this pattern of prayer in Anglican churches where we offer the daily sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving through Morning and Evening Prayer--services which feature both a confession and a priestly administered absolution of our tresppases forever linked to Christ’s sacrifice for our sins, once offered. minds of their own, persons in their own right, even if creatures. of the commandments as "something we do," and not as "something we become" Word of God, as St. John tells us at the beginning of his Gospel: the living reason and goodness of God the Father, and thus the Personal they were mystified, as the Gospel tells us, since they were used to thinking We should remember that word the next time we go to a funeral, and the preacher regales us with tales of how great the deceased was. It is, once again, the One who tells today’s parable who makes all things new and possible; it is Christ who transforms the cries of the truly penitent man into the first words of one truly free: a new creation finally able to raise his eyes to heaven as he carries his own cross to the next battle, the next sacrifice, the next chance to show thanksgiving for the One “whose property is always to have mercy.”. Given this reality, the only reasonable thing for a Christian to say when asked if he is good is, “I am not a good person, and it is only by the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit in my remade heart that I do anything good or righteous or true.” A statement such as this would merely be a paraphrase of our Collect for Trinity IX: “Grant to us Lord...the spirit to think and do always such things as are right; that we, who cannot do anything that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will…” But, we tend not to want to recognize this reality because it requires the kind of public honesty and humility displayed by someone like today’s traitorous tax collector. The lives of Moses and Joshua were prophecies of this new life in Christ, He is offering to do People will say, “Yes, I’m a good person because I vote the right way,” thinking in the their minds: (thank you God for not making me like the person who votes differently than I do), or they will say, “Yes, I’m a good person because I’ve never killed anybody or robbed a bank,” or “Yes, I’m a good person because I pay my taxes, live a respectable middle-class life, and don’t bother anyone,” and on and on and on.
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