Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2024 11:05:22 GMT -5
It is remarkable that patients or endurance is mentioned frequently in the New Testament and not in the Old. Surely the recipients of God's grace under the old covenant also wrestled. Theirs was a like holy faith with ours. They looked for the fulfillment of light promises of glory.
Yet in reference to this spiritual life, patience is never mentioned. Neither psalmist nor profit exhorted them to patience or endurance. And when the New Testament makes mention of patience in the Old Testament. It is not in reference to an Israelite, but to a man in Arabian named Job.
Patience or endurance is not extolled in Moses or in Elijah. The reason for this lies in the difference between Old Testament and New Testament calling.
In the Old Testament times the people of God were separate people living apart from other nations enclosed, as it were, within the limits of a special country. The Church of the New Covenant, on the contrary, overflows the borders of nationality spread. to all people, it is in the midst of the world.
It may not rest until the cross of Christ has been planted to the very ends of the Earth Consequently, the faith of God's Old Testament people was subjected to test quite different from those which try his New Testament children.
An Old Testament Times believers suffered oppression and scorn from those who were brothers according to the flesh, the followers of Jesus are subject to the scorn and vexations of the world.
Among brethren, there was a kiss of Judas, the oath of Caiaphas, who confessed the same God and the mocking laugh of a Herod. But quite different is the enmity of the world, the cold, coldness of a Pilate who acquits and yet condemns the mockery of rude Roman soldiers, discouraging and crucifixion, not as if there were no Judas in all ranks today, or as if there had been no entity from the world in olden times. They're all false brethren among us in an olden times. They were the Pharaohs and Nebuchadnezzars..
But the chief opposition to godliness in Israel came from false brethren, while. among us as chief opposition in the is the antagonism of the world. For those two diverse needs of his people, the Holy Spirit kindles two diverse virtues - over against hatred of false brethren, meekness; over against the molestations of the world endurance.
That man is meek, Who resists the desire to return evil for evil, to retaliate with bitter words when he is wrong, that man has endurance who can stand firm and maintain his faith in God amid troubles and oppression.
Accordingly, in the New Testament, meekness is also lauded. But in the New Testament, endurance is enjoyed. Moses, the man of God, did not suffer from onslaught of the world. His soul was constantly burdened with the complaints of murmurings of his own people.
Therefore, the set of him, now the man Moses, was very meek above above all men.
And the Psalmist sings, the meek shall inherit the Earth. Words with Jesus quotes in his sermon on the mouth In the Old Testament, the Meek,though for a time downtrodden, were assured final triumph, the Lord upholdeth the meek. The meeky will guide injustice. The Meek shall eat and be satisfied.
He will beautify the meek with salvation. The Meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, but on the other hand, in a glorious example of patience and endurance, his suffering did not come from his own brethren, but unto God's direction from Satan. And one day he was bereft of his children and all his possessions. Then his body was afflicted with dreadful disease in his troubled jobs, great difficulty was not that he must conquer a desire for revenge, but he that he must remain faithful to his God, in spite of a crushing adversities and in the face of taunts,
Jobs strength was not that he remained meek over against his wife and friends, but that he permitted no one and nothing to shake his faith in God.
The Israelites too had to wrestle to keep the faith that is evident from the history and also from the Psalms. But in the main their enemies, the Assyrians and the Babylonians did not demand that they foreswear God and worship idols, except one, and that one attempt called forth a miracle which caused the Great Nebuchadnezzar to humble himself before the God of heaven.
However, insistent one may be upon the oneness of the Old Testament and New Testament faith.
Nevertheless, there is a great difference. Theirs was a time of shadows and promises. They had only assurances.
We have, at least in part, the reality. They waited the coming of the Messiah. They longed for his salvation. And while waiting, they sought shelter in the secret place of the Most High. They found refuge in his tabernacles while the promised glory tarried and they constantly spurred one another on as a reading Psalms to renew trust in the faithfulness of him who promised.
Wait for the Lord O my soul, for thee O Lord, do I wait all the day for the new.
For the New Testament believers, the wonders of the manger and the cross are realities. True, he awaits the return of the Lord, and he is also called to meet this particularly in relationship to his fellow believers. But meekness awaiting a not as chief concern. He has a battle to fight.
A God given calling to go out into the world where he will meet resistance, where enemies will try to destroy him body and soul against these. He must have strength to stand. He needs. the spiritual strength to endure Jesus, who suffered much of the of the priest and scribes, speaks of his own meekness, but never of endurance. Learn of me that I am meek and lowly of heart. Behold your king cometh Meek and he is a king. The Apostles praise the meekness and gentleness of Christ'. 2Cor,10:1 toward the people of Israel in their blind leaders. But they also praises endurance his steadfastness or his patience before punches pilot and throughout his sufferings upon the cross, second Thessalonians 3:5.
Yet in reference to this spiritual life, patience is never mentioned. Neither psalmist nor profit exhorted them to patience or endurance. And when the New Testament makes mention of patience in the Old Testament. It is not in reference to an Israelite, but to a man in Arabian named Job.
Patience or endurance is not extolled in Moses or in Elijah. The reason for this lies in the difference between Old Testament and New Testament calling.
In the Old Testament times the people of God were separate people living apart from other nations enclosed, as it were, within the limits of a special country. The Church of the New Covenant, on the contrary, overflows the borders of nationality spread. to all people, it is in the midst of the world.
It may not rest until the cross of Christ has been planted to the very ends of the Earth Consequently, the faith of God's Old Testament people was subjected to test quite different from those which try his New Testament children.
An Old Testament Times believers suffered oppression and scorn from those who were brothers according to the flesh, the followers of Jesus are subject to the scorn and vexations of the world.
Among brethren, there was a kiss of Judas, the oath of Caiaphas, who confessed the same God and the mocking laugh of a Herod. But quite different is the enmity of the world, the cold, coldness of a Pilate who acquits and yet condemns the mockery of rude Roman soldiers, discouraging and crucifixion, not as if there were no Judas in all ranks today, or as if there had been no entity from the world in olden times. They're all false brethren among us in an olden times. They were the Pharaohs and Nebuchadnezzars..
But the chief opposition to godliness in Israel came from false brethren, while. among us as chief opposition in the is the antagonism of the world. For those two diverse needs of his people, the Holy Spirit kindles two diverse virtues - over against hatred of false brethren, meekness; over against the molestations of the world endurance.
That man is meek, Who resists the desire to return evil for evil, to retaliate with bitter words when he is wrong, that man has endurance who can stand firm and maintain his faith in God amid troubles and oppression.
Accordingly, in the New Testament, meekness is also lauded. But in the New Testament, endurance is enjoyed. Moses, the man of God, did not suffer from onslaught of the world. His soul was constantly burdened with the complaints of murmurings of his own people.
Therefore, the set of him, now the man Moses, was very meek above above all men.
And the Psalmist sings, the meek shall inherit the Earth. Words with Jesus quotes in his sermon on the mouth In the Old Testament, the Meek,though for a time downtrodden, were assured final triumph, the Lord upholdeth the meek. The meeky will guide injustice. The Meek shall eat and be satisfied.
He will beautify the meek with salvation. The Meek shall increase their joy in the Lord, but on the other hand, in a glorious example of patience and endurance, his suffering did not come from his own brethren, but unto God's direction from Satan. And one day he was bereft of his children and all his possessions. Then his body was afflicted with dreadful disease in his troubled jobs, great difficulty was not that he must conquer a desire for revenge, but he that he must remain faithful to his God, in spite of a crushing adversities and in the face of taunts,
Jobs strength was not that he remained meek over against his wife and friends, but that he permitted no one and nothing to shake his faith in God.
The Israelites too had to wrestle to keep the faith that is evident from the history and also from the Psalms. But in the main their enemies, the Assyrians and the Babylonians did not demand that they foreswear God and worship idols, except one, and that one attempt called forth a miracle which caused the Great Nebuchadnezzar to humble himself before the God of heaven.
However, insistent one may be upon the oneness of the Old Testament and New Testament faith.
Nevertheless, there is a great difference. Theirs was a time of shadows and promises. They had only assurances.
We have, at least in part, the reality. They waited the coming of the Messiah. They longed for his salvation. And while waiting, they sought shelter in the secret place of the Most High. They found refuge in his tabernacles while the promised glory tarried and they constantly spurred one another on as a reading Psalms to renew trust in the faithfulness of him who promised.
Wait for the Lord O my soul, for thee O Lord, do I wait all the day for the new.
For the New Testament believers, the wonders of the manger and the cross are realities. True, he awaits the return of the Lord, and he is also called to meet this particularly in relationship to his fellow believers. But meekness awaiting a not as chief concern. He has a battle to fight.
A God given calling to go out into the world where he will meet resistance, where enemies will try to destroy him body and soul against these. He must have strength to stand. He needs. the spiritual strength to endure Jesus, who suffered much of the of the priest and scribes, speaks of his own meekness, but never of endurance. Learn of me that I am meek and lowly of heart. Behold your king cometh Meek and he is a king. The Apostles praise the meekness and gentleness of Christ'. 2Cor,10:1 toward the people of Israel in their blind leaders. But they also praises endurance his steadfastness or his patience before punches pilot and throughout his sufferings upon the cross, second Thessalonians 3:5.