tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374689825908465871.post2242229187006963857..comments2023-05-28T00:02:17.066+08:00Comments on You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!: Two Ways to Readyemseehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14647588221842103666noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374689825908465871.post-16466668596739780442010-10-19T02:21:02.378+08:002010-10-19T02:21:02.378+08:00That is such a helpful article. Thank you, Dev. ...That is such a helpful article. Thank you, Dev. All too often these passages of the Bible are preached as if we were the righteous man and we need to stay clear of the wicked. The sermon is about the new intentions we need to develop or the new efforts we need to make to be more righteous. For many years I just couldn't be bothered with the Psalms because they were presented as such navel-gazing self-righteous prayers. They were so unrelated to the real condition of us wretched sinners that they were obviously irrelevant. Then I began to notice the way that the Psalms were exegeted in the New Testament and the lights started to come on. Jesus is the Blessed Man, the Righteous One, the Faithful One who has clean hands, the One who can have His life examined in the most detailed way, the One who can be vindicated by His own righteousness, the One whose enemies need to be destroyed. The moment we try to step into those shoes we are doing the Pharisee thing of reading the Law as if it was speaking about us.Paul Blackhamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03261709196742635005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374689825908465871.post-75276069349108545822010-10-18T03:39:52.474+08:002010-10-18T03:39:52.474+08:00Upon reflection, I guess you're right. Just ov...Upon reflection, I guess you're right. Just overreacting to a situation this week where someone was trying to "bring an OT passage to Jesus" more along the lines of "I guess we'd better now that we've had fun in the text" as opposed to "surely it's about Jesus but how?". Kinda as an afterthought of exegesis, as opposed to being the heart of exegesis? Kinda as if they would be happy for it not to be about Jesus?Inilah Kebenaranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09762379003375776339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374689825908465871.post-58618510424800608602010-10-13T23:22:50.751+08:002010-10-13T23:22:50.751+08:00I do basically agree, though
"Blesed is the...I do basically agree, though <br /><br />"Blesed is the man,.... etc, etc right?" isn't a brief part of working it out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894433115379089423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1374689825908465871.post-79670873478978324252010-10-13T05:55:26.386+08:002010-10-13T05:55:26.386+08:00What about those who after spending some length of...What about those who after spending some length of time 'exegeting' an OT passage then ask, "So... how are we going to bring it to Jesus?"Inilah Kebenaranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09762379003375776339noreply@blogger.com