What to remember
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Thread Topic: What to remember
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"I will right the wrongs!"
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Listen to God's spokesman describe another fact of the miracle God will perform when he returns in glory: "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O Death are your plagues? Where, O Grave is your destruction?" (Hosea 13:14). "The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces" (Isaiah 25:8). "Gladness and joy will overtake [the ransomed of the LORD], and sorrow and sighing will flee away" (Isaiah 35:10).
God assured his Old Testament believers that in the new world that was waiting for them he would right all the wrongs. He would undo all the painful results of sin that were complicating their lives. He promised to change their sinful bodies into perfect, forever bodies. In the new life and the new world, they would be free from temptation to sin. It's almost too much to believe, isn't it? Saint John assures us that we will be like God (1 John 3:2). We'll never sin again, never stumble again, never feel lonely again, never doubt again.. -
God's people were confident that the Savior whom God had promised to send would surely come. he would come as a King, to ransom his people. Remember that God's job description for Israel's king was to be a shepherd. The king's job was to protect God's people from anyone or anything that would harm them. He was to provide for his people's daily and deepest needs. God's Old Testament people knew that their Messiah-King would be seated at the right hand of God, as Lord of all creation. They trusted that when the Messiah returned in gloryy to take his people to live at his side, their future life would be totally different from their present life.
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In their future life in a new world, they would no longer be subject to death and anxiety and fear and suffering. Sin and evil would be a thing of the past. Can you imagine how precious a thought that was to to people for whom day-to-day life was a struggle? The results of sin back then were much the same as the results of sin today. Because of sin, some babies has no daddies and some wives no husbands. Because of the sin that lives in human hearts, the young are abused and the elderly forgotten. Because of sin, God is cursed and God's creation is worshipped. Because of sin, fellowship with God and his church is scorned, while entertainment and even drugs are worshipped. As we read the pages pf the Old Testament, we realize that life back then was not at all that much different from life today.
In the face of all of this, God sent his people a message of hope. In the new world that lies ahead,in the new life that's waiting for God's believing people, sin will have no power! Sin will not even be present!
Day after day, century after century, a gracious God kept reminding his Old Testament believers that there is another world and a better life besides this one. They heard his voice:
"I will raise the dead! I will have a family after all!"
"I will live with you! "
"I will restore my creation to its original perfection and right the wrongs in your life!" -
God's people responded in faith
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