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Wow! I love the
insights in my new commentary by Warren Wiersbe! He discusses how the Pharisees would have
felt hearing Jesus discussing them
in these parables:
“The people who first heard the parables must have been shocked. Jesus was saying that God actually searches for
lost sinners! … There was no place in the Pharisees’ legalistic theology
for a God like that … The Pharisees had a religion of good works … They knew
little or nothing about the grace of
God. However, it was not what they did, but what they did not do, that alienated them from
God. When they saw Jesus receiving and
forgiving irreligious people, they rebelled
against it. Even more, they failed to
see that they themselves also needed the
Savior.”
He had another awesome insight – “We are not saved by God’s love; God loves the
whole world and the whole world is not
saved. We are saved by God’s grace, and grace is love that pays a price.”
Father, keep me ever mindful that I was like the prodigal
son. I’ve witnessed firsthand Your
forgiveness and grace. Let me never fail
to identify with the one in need of repentance.
Help me to share my joy with him – something the Pharisees were never
able to do.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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