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A man came to a village to buy a shop from the village elder. He first entered a small restaurant there to have lunch. Looking around, he noticed the other patrons were rather subdued, as if they were at a funeral.
“What’s wrong with everyone?” he asked the waitress who came by.
She replied, “The whole village owes money to the village elder. It is impossible for many of us to pay back the debt.”
“What conditions are those?” asked the man.
“We can only eat certain food, and every Saturday we are to stop by the elder’s house to thank him for the favors he did for us. He also commanded us to love him and love our neighbor no matter who they are, and he gave us ten other commandments and a whole bunch of other rules besides.”
The man said, “I can pay off the debts of the village so you all can start anew and take into your hearts the things I say to you. If you do, you can love the elder under a new light, and you will be happy to love your neighbor and anyone who moves into your village, and in so doing, you won’t need the conditions laid on you by the elder.”
To make a long story short, he paid the elder for all the village’s debts, and the villagers saw the elder in a new light and they loved him and their neighbors and others.
Christ Jesus came to earth and relieved us of the debt owed to God from the sins we accumulated, enabling us to start anew in our relationship with God. He bought the peoples’ freedom from Laws imposed on them, and he put forth an understanding of God that those who already knew He existed, and those who didn’t, could live eternal lives of happiness in God’s Kingdom.
Many know the Word of God, but how many live under it? As the beginning of John Chapter 1 implies, those who live under the Word of God are living under God. But many go to a house of worship in their best clothes, and the rest of us may wonder if they wear such clothes out of respect for God, or do they wear them to impress other congregants. Many go through the motions of believing in God, but they act as if God isn’t in their hearts.
Do we really love God, our neighbor and others, or do people see you only because they can’t help not seeing you?
“What’s wrong with everyone?” he asked the waitress who came by.
She replied, “The whole village owes money to the village elder. It is impossible for many of us to pay back the debt.”
“What conditions are those?” asked the man.
“We can only eat certain food, and every Saturday we are to stop by the elder’s house to thank him for the favors he did for us. He also commanded us to love him and love our neighbor no matter who they are, and he gave us ten other commandments and a whole bunch of other rules besides.”
The man said, “I can pay off the debts of the village so you all can start anew and take into your hearts the things I say to you. If you do, you can love the elder under a new light, and you will be happy to love your neighbor and anyone who moves into your village, and in so doing, you won’t need the conditions laid on you by the elder.”
To make a long story short, he paid the elder for all the village’s debts, and the villagers saw the elder in a new light and they loved him and their neighbors and others.
Christ Jesus came to earth and relieved us of the debt owed to God from the sins we accumulated, enabling us to start anew in our relationship with God. He bought the peoples’ freedom from Laws imposed on them, and he put forth an understanding of God that those who already knew He existed, and those who didn’t, could live eternal lives of happiness in God’s Kingdom.
Many know the Word of God, but how many live under it? As the beginning of John Chapter 1 implies, those who live under the Word of God are living under God. But many go to a house of worship in their best clothes, and the rest of us may wonder if they wear such clothes out of respect for God, or do they wear them to impress other congregants. Many go through the motions of believing in God, but they act as if God isn’t in their hearts.
Do we really love God, our neighbor and others, or do people see you only because they can’t help not seeing you?
