CLEAN – podcast 5 (Walking in the Light)
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เนื้อหาจัดทำโดย Douglas Jacoby เนื้อหาพอดแคสต์ทั้งหมด รวมถึงตอน กราฟิก และคำอธิบายพอดแคสต์ได้รับการอัปโหลดและจัดเตรียมโดย Douglas Jacoby หรือพันธมิตรแพลตฟอร์มพอดแคสต์โดยตรง หากคุณเชื่อว่ามีบุคคลอื่นใช้งานที่มีลิขสิทธิ์ของคุณโดยไม่ได้รับอนุญาต คุณสามารถปฏิบัติตามขั้นตอนที่อธิบายไว้ที่นี่ https://th.player.fm/legal
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Introduction
- OT: Purity and cleansing are more about forgiveness than about transformation.
- Yet, for fairness and balance, holiness was the goal, and then as now involved a quest, a process...
- E.g, Exodus: facilitation of forgiveness and holiness: laws, priesthood, tabernacle; Leviticus: atonement and holiness; Numbers: the journey of faith continues, with penalties for sin; Deuteronomy: obedient love / loving obedience.
- Two-stage salvation
- Baptism: past sins
- Confession and repentance: future sins
- Far too many believers are confused about what it means to walk in the light.
Scriptural study: 1 John 1:6-2:7
- Contrast: light / darkness
- Walking in light assumes some degree of failure
- We do not move to the darkness every time we sin (though we do if we give up on Christ.)
- What is walking in darkness?
- Darkness is pretense.
- It's also lack of openness.
- Those in the dark ignore, twist, or reject God's word.
- How we live -- how we obey Christ -- does matter.
- Yet if we slip, we have an advocate.
- Walking in the light is the way of obedience.
- Walking in light is walking as Jesus walked: openness, honesty, obedience to the Father, a life centered round others (love).
- There's one more key dimension of walking in the light (1 John 3:1-3).
- Walking in light isn't only ongoing forgiveness and ongoing obedience.
- It's also ongoing transformation!
- Protestants tend to see the crucifixion of Jesus as their means of forgiveness, while Orthodox theology highlights the resurrection (the other side of Jesus' atonement) as a source of new life -- becoming like God.
- We too should appreciate that God's plan is for us to become like Christ (see also Rom 8:29 -- for this we will need to embrace suffering).
Prayer for purity at the level of:
- Conscience / heart / motives
- Thoughts
- Words
- Actions
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