So, I only thought last week was to be my last vlog for a while. (vlog??) Things worked out where I am able to post a bit.
Tonight was just effervescent. We started off talking about the plum line for righteousness was perfection. Verse after verse was read about how people were to be perfect in bringing their sacrifices and if the weren't, they were to be cut off from their people. Nothing less than perfection would do. Since none could obtain perfection through works, mankind was a lost hope, right?
Maybe not.
Back in the day, a person could still obtain God's forgiveness by bringing a sacrifices. The priest could attend his duties, and for a short while, the said person would be absolved. This was all under the Law, though. We talked about now how that we're not under the Law; Jesus freed from it, and therefore it has no hold on us.
We spoke of how easy it is to not do the 'big' sins... well, for the "average Joe", and we could easily name the "nasty nine" and "Dirty dozen", but what about when God says, "do", and we "don't'? What then?
Good discussion about how discouraging some groups of believers could be. It was said that if all we hear from the pulpit was how bad we are, and how we need to get our act together, and how we need to try harder, what's the use? If we're also told we can't do it, why try? Why does it matter?
Salvation was compared to the new wine skin. How new wine isn't poured into old skins, otherwise, the new wine would case the old skin to burst, and both wine and bag would be lost. New wine still has some fermenting to do. Salvation, (new wine) is just the start of this wonderful journey in our relationship with God. We "ferment" when we grow in God. Heather admitted she had an awful lot of fermenting to do. I agreed with her.
Have a listen if you can--long, but fun!
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