Currently reading…
Finished in 2010…
What I read in 2009
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Nineteen Minutes
-
The Stranger
- A High View of Scripture?
- The Blue Parakeet
- The Great Brain
- Introduction to the Bible
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- The Natural
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Candy Girl
- Fight Club
- Starship Troopers
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- World Without End
- SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World
- SuperFreakonomics
- No Country for Old Men
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Pillars of the Earth
Saturday, September, 13, 2008
Posted at: 8:00 am
Matthew Chapter 13 is why I am not a universalist. Jesus tells parable after parable describing the kingdom of heaven. In each parable there are two categories; the ones brought into the kingdom and the ones excluded. Jesus makes it very clear that there will be some who will be excluded from the kingdom of heaven. The sons of the evil one, everything that causes sin and all who do evil will be weeded out of the kingdom of heaven.
I cause and do evil; what hope have I of not being weeded out of God’s kingdom? I have hope because I have been adopted by God as one of his children. I am no longer a son of the evil one but a son of God. I am not a weed, but rather a part of God’ harvest. I will have the opportunity to shine like the sun in the kingdom of my Father.
There is nothing I have done or could have done that earned my adoption into the family of God. It was a gift freely given by God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus is my Lord and the one who has saved my soul and restored me to God.
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