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a brand plucked from the fire. pastor + professor

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

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[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

It is hard to read this and just scroll past as a parent. I am not here to judge them, far from it, but I want to raise a point I haven’t seen raised.

Scripture has never identified biological variance as humanity’s core problem. Romans 3:23 does not say “all have chromosomal anomalies.”

The deficit the Bible diagnoses across every human being is moral, volitional, and relational. A sundering of the image-bearer from its Creator. That is what required redemption and that is what cost God something.

By that exact metric, Jesse and Ashley
are the defective ones in the room. They are fallen, morally accountable, and spiritually broken adults who require the blood of a covenant to stand before God. The child, not yet at the age of accountability, had not entered that reckoning. David said of his dead infant: “I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.” He was not despairing, but was locating the child somewhere.

The one they considered too broken to live may have been more secure before God than either of them.

It is unfathomable to me that God looked at a spiritually deformed, rebellious, broken humanity and rather than calculate the burden, project the dependency, or conclude the defect was too great, he entered the limitation himself. He took on flesh, was born in a manger, learned to walk, got tired and even wept. The logic of the Incarnation runs in the exact opposite direction from the logic of that termination.

God’s response to the broken was to become vulnerable alongside it.

The final indictment is that Jesse and Ashley exist only because God operates by a completely different currency than the one they applied to their son. The mercy that sustains two spiritually broken adults was not extended to a child whose only defect was an extra chromosome rather than a fallen will.

Down Syndrome is not currency before God, sin is. And on that ledger, the child was significantly richer than his parents.

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[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

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@BHAcademic The @expositcllctv podcast/ministry is second to none!

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@QTHESTORMM Amazing

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Hey @WeirdAlYankovlc I think the world needs UHF 2

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@ErikReed Wake up early and commit. I listen to books/music/worship the first 1/2 and then pray during the second. A morning 5k steps (~2.2 miles) walking slow is less than an hour and usually gets me to 10k by evening

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@GrantCardone It buys private jets

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@AB84 Yessir

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I’m writing a sci-fi novel. Why??

https://t.co/nRKg12QjrD

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@KatKanada_TM I’m so sorry. Praying for peace and comfort

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@expositcllctv My @ccbcmurrieta #Revelation class uses Walvoord. I’m exploring Tom Schreiner’s newer one as well.

[Luke Simmons @lukedsimmons]

This is as true today as the day Erik wrote it.

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If your only reference to Jesus Christ is through his followers… And that has been a negative experience for you, I challenge you to investigate who he is in the pages of scripture! I think you’ll be fascinated and then encouraged that though his followers are far from perfect, he wonderfully is.

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As predictable and common as the seasons are, the Lord seems to work in the lives of his people respectively. Times of growth, moments of loss. Visions die, as new mercies resurrect in their place.

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