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1940 Loving—Whether Good Or Bad
Mark Guy Pearse used to tell of the time he overheard one of his children admonishing the other, “You must be good or Father won’t love you.”
Calling the boy to him he said, “Son, that isn’t really true.”
“But you won’t love us if we are bad, will you?” the boy asked.
“Yes, I will love you whether you are good or bad,” Pearse explained.
“But there will be a difference in my love.
When you are good I will love you with a love that makes me glad; and when you are not good I will love you with a love that hurts me.”
Blessed Lord, You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning.
Grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn, and take them to heart that, by the patience and comfort of Your holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life.
… through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Aaron had just died, God’s judgment upon him for his part at Meribah, when the children of Israel murmured against God because they lacked water () ()
After 30 days of mourning, and a successful battle with the Canaanite king of Arad, Israel departs Mount Hor, and again they complain against God regarding His love for them, saying that He was failing to provide for them.
God responded to this rebellion with a judgment of fiery, poisonous serpents, whose bite was fatal.
Our response to God’s righteous judgments
Rejection
Repentance
The Children of Israel repented, asking Moses to intercede for them.
In response, God directs Moses to make a Bronze serpent and place it upon a pole.
Whoever looked upon it would be delivered from the effects of the venom.
The means of grace provided by God did not remove the serpents, but it did block the impact of their bite.
Ap IV:86 Since we receive the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation on account of Christ by faith alone, faith alone justifies.
This is because those who are reconciled are regarded as righteous and children of God, not on account of their own purity, but through mercy on account of Christ, as long as they take hold of this mercy by faith.
Robert Kolb, Timothy J. Wengert, and Charles P. Arand, The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000), 135.
The Children of Israel sinned repeatedly against God in this way.
When we complain rather than praise God in the midst of the cares of this life, we follow in their footsteps.
We do this out of our weakness, out of our pain, but most importantly, out of our sin.
God could leave us in our foolish state, but in His stern kindness God leads us to repentance, if we don’t harden ourselves against it.
Jesus looks back to that day of judgment to teach Nicodemus the reason why He had come:
What Jesus said that night to Nicodemus, He also says to us through the preaching of the Gospel and the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion.
Both of these sacraments speak to the death of Christ “for you.”
Both present Christ coming to us to save us.
and both show us how Christ identified both with us and with the judgment that we had received because of sin.
the Bronze Serpent - the Crucified Lord
This passage speaks of something called ἡ κρίσις - the crisis.
It is that moment when we must choose between light and darkness, between the love of God and the love of the world.
That light does not lead to the Gospel, it is the Gospel, for it is Christ.
Christ comes to us, high and lifted up, and we must choose to either look upon Him and live, in the midst of this fallen creation, or look away and die.
Being in the church house on Sunday is only part of that.
Here, we remind you and refresh you with God’s promises, “which are yes and Amen in Christ.”
If you leave those promises here, instead of taking them with you in to the world, they will do you no good, in fact, those words of comfort will be the witnesses at your condemnation on the last day.
Some ask, “why so many churches?”
I ask, “why so much sin?”
Why, in the face of God’s clear love for us in the face of Christ, do we hate one another so much that we treat each other like prey rather than brothers and sisters for whom we pray?
Why do we seek our own pleasure rather than our neighbor’s good?
Why do we seek to be served rather than to serve?
This is not what Christ did - instead, He gave His life as a ransom for many.
Look on Him and live.
Be strengthened to live in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, to live as lights in the midst of darkness.
To make peace instead of sow seeds of destruction.
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