Friday, March 16, 2012
Who is or What is the Paymaster?
Pages 37-42 Yes God disciplines. To protect. To guide. To set and keep his children on the right path. He is active not passive--- until the the very end. His discipline is no longer needed in the 3rd coming. The sinful have already been put to sleep once. The doomed have chosen their fate. Sin's end game brings its own judgement. Sin does the punishing at this time. Sin and it's loyal followers understand their fate but do not accept it. they want their cake and eat it to. They want to continually live in a sin state but for eternity, like the other-centered children are going to get to do--but who are in an other-centered, holy and righteous state. Sin cannot exist or stand wholly in front of God. So, the rebellious Children attack. Just as the father was cloaked in darkness from Jesus while Jesus was on the cross so must be the doomed...but they are not. Just as God hid most of himself from Moses as he passed by him on Mt. Sinai lest Moses die...so must the father in front of the doomed. But he does not. If there is an active role then this is his active role. He stands in front of his disconnected rebellious children. They die. They chose. They did it to themselves. They die because of their sins just as Jesus dies because of He becoming our sins. He dies of mental anguish caused by a broken heart. Sin and other-centeredness could not co-exist in God's body! The father does not send fire from himself to consume Jesus on the cross as the author of our past quarterly claimed in the July 25 lesson. It is passive cause and effect at this point. Just as God the Father did not kill Jesus on the cross, He does not kill his children at this time either. To say at this time that the Jesus must met out an additional punishment is silly and deprecating God's character. What could be given out to the rebellious that would be worse than the eternal extinction they are getting from their sins? Who is the pay-master when Paul wrote the "wages of sin is death?" It is not Who but what the pay-master is, the pay-master is sin. Sin...not God.
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