Mar 11
Have you felt it? The sense that we’ve lost the wonder? The feeling that we have lost sight of the awesome scale of our God. We’ve decided to look at Him under a microscope, limiting our ability to see a more full picture of who God truly is and deciding on our own which attributes of the Eternal and Almighty God we want to accept. What we need, however, is to open the aperture through which we are willing to look at God in all of his likenesses and dive deeper into His Wisdom, His Holiness, His Mercy.
Louie Giglio wants us to focus on God’s Wrath and His Mercy. It’s only by fully realizing the one, that we can appreciate in earnest the other. God’s Mercy only makes the impact on our lives that it should when we have a full grasp of His Wrath that was due us until it was poured upon Jesus that day on Calvary answering the prayers of God’s people: LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy. Habakkuk 3:2
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Lord, I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy.
1.Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children 2.and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.3.But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. 4.Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5.For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.5:5 Or kingdom of the Messiah and God 6.Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
10.“Have them make an ark25:10 That is, a chest of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.25:10 That is, about 3 3/4 feet long and 2 1/4 feet wide and high or about 1.1 meters long and 68 centimeters wide and high; similarly in verse 17 11.Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12.Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other. 13.Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14.Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry it. 15.The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed. 16.Then put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law, which I will give you.17.“Make an atonement cover of pure gold—two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. 18.And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover. 19.Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends. 20.The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover. 21.Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the tablets of the covenant law that I will give you. 22.There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the covenant law, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites.
4.But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5.made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6.And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7.in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8.For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9.not by works, so that no one can boast. 10.For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
21.God made him who had no sin to be sin5:21 Or be a sin offering for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
21.But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22.This righteousness is given through faith in3:22 Or through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23.for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24.and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25.God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,3:25 The Greek for sacrifice of atonement refers to the atonement cover on the ark of the covenant (see Lev. 16:15,16). through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.