weight loss running vs walking
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Hebrews 12: Could the “weight” loss req’d to run the race at the pace patience is running it be lose the law?
Hebrews 12
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us
So then, when we hit Hebrews 12 it’s no longer a grace walk from Mt Sinain to Mt Sion through the valley of the shadow of death, but a run, and notably along with patience, which seems to be running at pace equivalent to grace, which much more aboundeth where sin abounds.
Putting global stats on a graph, s
uch as killer quakes vs world population
it seems the sprint to the end of the race began in 1967,
when such global graphs notably both began to shoot forth;
But when analyzed, grace is much more abounding than law.
http://www.godshew.org/Graphically.htm
The problem is you don’t keep reading. The author makes his intentions clear so we don’t have to guess.
Heb 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5And you have forgotten that word of encouragement that addresses you as sons:
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6because the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.”[a]
7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons. 9Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live! 10Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness. 11No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
12Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. 13″Make level paths for your feet,”[b] so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.
As was mentioned back in chapter 5, the author views the reader as immature.
Heb 5:11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. 12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
The author is trying to help the reader mature in the faith…not lose the grace that God ordain from the beginning of time.
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