The resurrected Lord Jesus Christ meets Paul face to face, and in that one moment Saul recognizes the depth of his spiritual blindness, his entire theological worldview comes crumbling down, and he is on the ground before the Lord God of the Universe . . . whom he has been actively persecuting by persecuting those who are called by His name.

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What God has done, man cannot overturn. The Apostles preach boldly in public, they speak from within the Temple itself, and declare the wonders of God and His Son Jesus Christ.

And so it is, with one eye over our shoulder on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we might wonder just who has power in the world now? Who rules over all now? When the agents of evil, the agents of Satan, seek to silence the Lord’s chosen spokesmen, when they bring all of their power against them . . . who is victorious?

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God’s original plan for humanity was undying life in the flesh. He had designed humanity for an unending life, lived with Him and enjoying His presence.

If Christ cannot grant that . . . if in this life only we have hope in Christ . . . then yes, we are to be pitied more than all men.

But we have confidence for something much greater. We have confidence in a resurrection from the dead that does not lead to eternal condemnation, but a resurrection that leads to eternal bliss.

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The “tenants” forsook the role of steward and took for themselves the role of Lord. But the One True Lord cannot let that stand . . . and so He sends His duly-appointed servants to call the “tenants” back to faithfulness. And the prophets’ reward is to be beaten, cast out, and wounded. Those who spoke on God’s direct authority were shamefully treated as men of no account . . . and in that, God’s own authority, name, and character was rejected as being of no account, as well.

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The son recognizes his father’s character of mercy. He does not dare plead for restoration, but he does at least know that his father will receive him, even if he doesn’t receive him as a son. The son knows the father is a man of mercy. That he is just and upright. In in the same moment the son realizes he is utterly unworthy of his father, he also recognizes—possibly for the first time ever—just how worthy his father is . . . and no doubt he is ashamed all the more.

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When Pilate mingled the blood of the Galileans with their sacrifices, who was to blame? Jesus blames neither Pilate nor the Galileans. Instead, He levels an even more serious accusation against all of humanity. Yes, the deaths of the Galileans were indeed a judgment of God, but as Arthur Just says in his commentary on Luke, “For Jesus, any such tragedy should be seen not as a sign of God’s judgment on specific people for specific sins, but as a sign of his judgment of all people.” Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

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Sin pours into our lives, it corrupts our hearts, it seeks to undo and ruin and spoil and destroy us. And the crazy thing is . . . we go along with it. We willingly run headlong into our own destruction, gleefully doing all that God has said, “Thou shalt not” and willfully neglecting everything that God has said, “Thou shall.” And still, Jesus runs His course.

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When the devil tempts, “What could be the harm? It’s just one little loaf of bread” . . . Jesus knows what the harm could be. Jesus chooses instead to live without what God has not yet chosen to provide, and He will live on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

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