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Faithfulness Okom retweeted
When I was 15, it made sense to me that the God of the Universe could not be a local god. Only Islam and Christianity seemed to profess to worship a universal God and so I found an English Quran and read it cover to cover.
Having read both the Bible and Quran, it was pretty clear that the Islamic God offered slavery while the Christian God offered me sonship. Of course, not being a fool, I choose sonship.
Muslims remain in slavery only because they are threatened with death if they dare look at the offer of sonship and reconsider things. I knew immediately I could never join such a thing.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Jesus paid the cost.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Wow.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Many overlook the fact that Adam was standing right next to Eve, and could have intervened. Adam was also supposed to be watching over the garden as well. He allowed the serpent 🐍 to enter the garden in the first place, failing in his role as a protector of the first family.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Wisdom spoken here. Men, we have a great responsibility. We have been given much but much is required of us.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Another great message from Brother Okum
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Eve's eyes were not opened when she ate the fruit. Creation did not fracture, and the sentence of death did not fall.
Everything remained suspended until Adam ate. That is the scandal we overlook. Humanity did not fall with the woman, but with the man.
Genesis 3:6-7 records the sequence plainly.
The woman took the fruit and ate, then gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Only then were the eyes of both opened.
This is why Paul writes in Romans 5:12 that sin entered the world through one man. In 1 Timothy 2:14, he notes that Eve was deceived, yet he never traces condemnation to her.
Adam was the priest-king charged to guard the sanctuary, having received the command directly before Eve was formed. His calling was to silence the lie and protect his bride, yet he stood beside her in absolute silence.
God's indictment in Genesis 3:17 names the charge: because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree.
When Eve fell, Adam held the remedy. As unfallen covenant head, he could have refused the fruit, brought his wife before God, and stood in the breach. Scripture repeatedly shows God honoring the mediator who stands between judgment and a fallen people.
Instead, Adam chose solidarity in rebellion. He ate with open eyes, and when judgment arrived, he blamed both his wife and God, weaponizing the woman to excuse his own treason.
This failure demanded a Second Adam, and the reversal unfolds in another garden.
Where Adam stood upright in Eden and yielded to the enemy, Jesus fell to His face in Gethsemane, sweating blood in submission to the Father. Adam grasped at divinity from a forbidden tree; Christ surrendered His privileges, walking toward an execution stake on a barren hill.
Where Adam joined his bride in rebellion and abandoned her under trial, Christ encountered a bride already defiled and broke the cycle.
He did not join her in sin, but entered our condition in flawless obedience. Rather than pointing fingers in heaven's courtroom, He absorbed her sentence, bore the curse of the Law, and washed her in His blood to present her holy and blameless.
This is the engine of Romans 5, where the gift overpowers the trespass. Adam's failure unleashed the reign of death, but Christ's one righteous act absorbed millions of accumulated sins.
Returning us to fragile innocence would have been mercy enough, yet He clothed us in the righteousness of God. Death once reigned through one man, but those who receive grace now reign in life through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
"Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely."
There is only one place in the entire Bible where God describes Himself as doing something with all “His heart and with all His soul”.
It is not an emotional metaphor. It is the deliberate reversal of the greatest demand ever laid upon humanity.
To any ancient reader, that phrase belonged to untouchable ground. It was the vocabulary of Deuteronomy, the ultimate demand laid upon human beings to offer undivided allegiance to their Creator.
Yet the entire prophetic record is a catastrophic post-mortem of how thoroughly humanity failed that test.
Israel proved utterly incapable of loving God with an undivided heart. Jeremiah himself spent decades diagnosing the problem, famously concluding that the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. The covenant demanded perfection, and Moses admitted in Deuteronomy 29:4 that the Lord had not yet given Israel a heart to understand.
Then comes Jeremiah 32:41, where the logic of the Shema is completely inverted.
Facing a ruined nation on the brink of total annihilation, God takes the very demand humanity shattered and turns it upon Himself.
He promises that He will rejoice in doing them good, and that “He will plant them in the land with all His heart and with all His soul”.
In Hebrew thought, the heart is the seat of executive intellect and sovereign will, while the soul is the throat, the breath, and the living vitality. God invests His entire sovereign purpose and living delight in their restoration.
God effectively resolves the failure of Sinai by taking up both sides of the covenantal ledger. In the Old Covenant, the human party carried the burden of faithfulness, and they broke it. In Jeremiah 32, God eliminates the single point of failure.
On His side of the ledger, He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness. On the human side, He declares that He will put the fear of Him in their hearts so that they may not turn from Him. (Jer 32:40)
The eternal security of the covenant no longer hangs on the fragile thread of human willpower, because God Himself renovates the human interior from within, securing an everlasting covenant in the blood of Christ so that the promise belongs irrevocably to His people.
Interestingly, God gave this prophecy while Babylonian siege ramps were banked against the walls of Jerusalem, while famine raged inside, and while Jeremiah sat locked in a royal prison, a long way from Solomon's golden temple at the peak of national prosperity.
Moments before this declaration, God had the prophet spend seventeen shekels of silver to purchase an ancestral plot of land in Anathoth, territory already given into enemy hands. It was an economically absurd investment in a doomed country. Yet the deed was sealed in an earthen jar because God was looking straight through the coming fire to the harvest on the other side.
Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely.
The God of Scripture holds back no part of His nature in the work of redemption. The security of anyone who belongs to Him rests on the scandalous reality that God has committed His mind, His breath, and His infinite joy to never letting them go.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
"He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness..." ✨🕊️✨
There is only one place in the entire Bible where God describes Himself as doing something with all “His heart and with all His soul”.
It is not an emotional metaphor. It is the deliberate reversal of the greatest demand ever laid upon humanity.
To any ancient reader, that phrase belonged to untouchable ground. It was the vocabulary of Deuteronomy, the ultimate demand laid upon human beings to offer undivided allegiance to their Creator.
Yet the entire prophetic record is a catastrophic post-mortem of how thoroughly humanity failed that test.
Israel proved utterly incapable of loving God with an undivided heart. Jeremiah himself spent decades diagnosing the problem, famously concluding that the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. The covenant demanded perfection, and Moses admitted in Deuteronomy 29:4 that the Lord had not yet given Israel a heart to understand.
Then comes Jeremiah 32:41, where the logic of the Shema is completely inverted.
Facing a ruined nation on the brink of total annihilation, God takes the very demand humanity shattered and turns it upon Himself.
He promises that He will rejoice in doing them good, and that “He will plant them in the land with all His heart and with all His soul”.
In Hebrew thought, the heart is the seat of executive intellect and sovereign will, while the soul is the throat, the breath, and the living vitality. God invests His entire sovereign purpose and living delight in their restoration.
God effectively resolves the failure of Sinai by taking up both sides of the covenantal ledger. In the Old Covenant, the human party carried the burden of faithfulness, and they broke it. In Jeremiah 32, God eliminates the single point of failure.
On His side of the ledger, He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness. On the human side, He declares that He will put the fear of Him in their hearts so that they may not turn from Him. (Jer 32:40)
The eternal security of the covenant no longer hangs on the fragile thread of human willpower, because God Himself renovates the human interior from within, securing an everlasting covenant in the blood of Christ so that the promise belongs irrevocably to His people.
Interestingly, God gave this prophecy while Babylonian siege ramps were banked against the walls of Jerusalem, while famine raged inside, and while Jeremiah sat locked in a royal prison, a long way from Solomon's golden temple at the peak of national prosperity.
Moments before this declaration, God had the prophet spend seventeen shekels of silver to purchase an ancestral plot of land in Anathoth, territory already given into enemy hands. It was an economically absurd investment in a doomed country. Yet the deed was sealed in an earthen jar because God was looking straight through the coming fire to the harvest on the other side.
Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely.
The God of Scripture holds back no part of His nature in the work of redemption. The security of anyone who belongs to Him rests on the scandalous reality that God has committed His mind, His breath, and His infinite joy to never letting them go.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
So Beautiful is the Feet of Him.💞
There is only one place in the entire Bible where God describes Himself as doing something with all “His heart and with all His soul”.
It is not an emotional metaphor. It is the deliberate reversal of the greatest demand ever laid upon humanity.
To any ancient reader, that phrase belonged to untouchable ground. It was the vocabulary of Deuteronomy, the ultimate demand laid upon human beings to offer undivided allegiance to their Creator.
Yet the entire prophetic record is a catastrophic post-mortem of how thoroughly humanity failed that test.
Israel proved utterly incapable of loving God with an undivided heart. Jeremiah himself spent decades diagnosing the problem, famously concluding that the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. The covenant demanded perfection, and Moses admitted in Deuteronomy 29:4 that the Lord had not yet given Israel a heart to understand.
Then comes Jeremiah 32:41, where the logic of the Shema is completely inverted.
Facing a ruined nation on the brink of total annihilation, God takes the very demand humanity shattered and turns it upon Himself.
He promises that He will rejoice in doing them good, and that “He will plant them in the land with all His heart and with all His soul”.
In Hebrew thought, the heart is the seat of executive intellect and sovereign will, while the soul is the throat, the breath, and the living vitality. God invests His entire sovereign purpose and living delight in their restoration.
God effectively resolves the failure of Sinai by taking up both sides of the covenantal ledger. In the Old Covenant, the human party carried the burden of faithfulness, and they broke it. In Jeremiah 32, God eliminates the single point of failure.
On His side of the ledger, He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness. On the human side, He declares that He will put the fear of Him in their hearts so that they may not turn from Him. (Jer 32:40)
The eternal security of the covenant no longer hangs on the fragile thread of human willpower, because God Himself renovates the human interior from within, securing an everlasting covenant in the blood of Christ so that the promise belongs irrevocably to His people.
Interestingly, God gave this prophecy while Babylonian siege ramps were banked against the walls of Jerusalem, while famine raged inside, and while Jeremiah sat locked in a royal prison, a long way from Solomon's golden temple at the peak of national prosperity.
Moments before this declaration, God had the prophet spend seventeen shekels of silver to purchase an ancestral plot of land in Anathoth, territory already given into enemy hands. It was an economically absurd investment in a doomed country. Yet the deed was sealed in an earthen jar because God was looking straight through the coming fire to the harvest on the other side.
Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely.
The God of Scripture holds back no part of His nature in the work of redemption. The security of anyone who belongs to Him rests on the scandalous reality that God has committed His mind, His breath, and His infinite joy to never letting them go.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Beyond beautiful
There is only one place in the entire Bible where God describes Himself as doing something with all “His heart and with all His soul”.
It is not an emotional metaphor. It is the deliberate reversal of the greatest demand ever laid upon humanity.
To any ancient reader, that phrase belonged to untouchable ground. It was the vocabulary of Deuteronomy, the ultimate demand laid upon human beings to offer undivided allegiance to their Creator.
Yet the entire prophetic record is a catastrophic post-mortem of how thoroughly humanity failed that test.
Israel proved utterly incapable of loving God with an undivided heart. Jeremiah himself spent decades diagnosing the problem, famously concluding that the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. The covenant demanded perfection, and Moses admitted in Deuteronomy 29:4 that the Lord had not yet given Israel a heart to understand.
Then comes Jeremiah 32:41, where the logic of the Shema is completely inverted.
Facing a ruined nation on the brink of total annihilation, God takes the very demand humanity shattered and turns it upon Himself.
He promises that He will rejoice in doing them good, and that “He will plant them in the land with all His heart and with all His soul”.
In Hebrew thought, the heart is the seat of executive intellect and sovereign will, while the soul is the throat, the breath, and the living vitality. God invests His entire sovereign purpose and living delight in their restoration.
God effectively resolves the failure of Sinai by taking up both sides of the covenantal ledger. In the Old Covenant, the human party carried the burden of faithfulness, and they broke it. In Jeremiah 32, God eliminates the single point of failure.
On His side of the ledger, He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness. On the human side, He declares that He will put the fear of Him in their hearts so that they may not turn from Him. (Jer 32:40)
The eternal security of the covenant no longer hangs on the fragile thread of human willpower, because God Himself renovates the human interior from within, securing an everlasting covenant in the blood of Christ so that the promise belongs irrevocably to His people.
Interestingly, God gave this prophecy while Babylonian siege ramps were banked against the walls of Jerusalem, while famine raged inside, and while Jeremiah sat locked in a royal prison, a long way from Solomon's golden temple at the peak of national prosperity.
Moments before this declaration, God had the prophet spend seventeen shekels of silver to purchase an ancestral plot of land in Anathoth, territory already given into enemy hands. It was an economically absurd investment in a doomed country. Yet the deed was sealed in an earthen jar because God was looking straight through the coming fire to the harvest on the other side.
Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely.
The God of Scripture holds back no part of His nature in the work of redemption. The security of anyone who belongs to Him rests on the scandalous reality that God has committed His mind, His breath, and His infinite joy to never letting them go.
There is only one place in the entire Bible where God describes Himself as doing something with all “His heart and with all His soul”.
It is not an emotional metaphor. It is the deliberate reversal of the greatest demand ever laid upon humanity.
To any ancient reader, that phrase belonged to untouchable ground. It was the vocabulary of Deuteronomy, the ultimate demand laid upon human beings to offer undivided allegiance to their Creator.
Yet the entire prophetic record is a catastrophic post-mortem of how thoroughly humanity failed that test.
Israel proved utterly incapable of loving God with an undivided heart. Jeremiah himself spent decades diagnosing the problem, famously concluding that the human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. The covenant demanded perfection, and Moses admitted in Deuteronomy 29:4 that the Lord had not yet given Israel a heart to understand.
Then comes Jeremiah 32:41, where the logic of the Shema is completely inverted.
Facing a ruined nation on the brink of total annihilation, God takes the very demand humanity shattered and turns it upon Himself.
He promises that He will rejoice in doing them good, and that “He will plant them in the land with all His heart and with all His soul”.
In Hebrew thought, the heart is the seat of executive intellect and sovereign will, while the soul is the throat, the breath, and the living vitality. God invests His entire sovereign purpose and living delight in their restoration.
God effectively resolves the failure of Sinai by taking up both sides of the covenantal ledger. In the Old Covenant, the human party carried the burden of faithfulness, and they broke it. In Jeremiah 32, God eliminates the single point of failure.
On His side of the ledger, He binds His own heart and soul to relentless goodness. On the human side, He declares that He will put the fear of Him in their hearts so that they may not turn from Him. (Jer 32:40)
The eternal security of the covenant no longer hangs on the fragile thread of human willpower, because God Himself renovates the human interior from within, securing an everlasting covenant in the blood of Christ so that the promise belongs irrevocably to His people.
Interestingly, God gave this prophecy while Babylonian siege ramps were banked against the walls of Jerusalem, while famine raged inside, and while Jeremiah sat locked in a royal prison, a long way from Solomon's golden temple at the peak of national prosperity.
Moments before this declaration, God had the prophet spend seventeen shekels of silver to purchase an ancestral plot of land in Anathoth, territory already given into enemy hands. It was an economically absurd investment in a doomed country. Yet the deed was sealed in an earthen jar because God was looking straight through the coming fire to the harvest on the other side.
Most people move through life under the quiet, exhausting suspicion that God merely tolerates them through clenched teeth, as if grace were an awkward administrative concession. Jeremiah 32:41 dismantles that caricature entirely.
The God of Scripture holds back no part of His nature in the work of redemption. The security of anyone who belongs to Him rests on the scandalous reality that God has committed His mind, His breath, and His infinite joy to never letting them go.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
Fill me with your joy. And fill me with your rage.
May I possess an unyielding indignation at the sight of decay,
And never weep over the things that make you rejoice. Nor rejoice at the things that make you rage.
Fill me with reason, with the power to know.
Give my heart weight that it may hold the equilibrium of emotions you carry.
Give me fire,
Give me ice,
Give me peace,
Give me you.
Faithfulness Okom retweeted
“People often ask how the death of one man could answer for the sins of billions across history.
The math works because of who He is. Jesus is the Word through whom all things were made, the source holding reality together. Every single one of us draws our very breath and existence from Him. If His life is so robust that all of humanity draws from it, His death is robust enough to redeem us all”.
Any president can pardon a guilty man with one signature. God holds that authority in an absolute form, yet He chose never to use it. The reason is the entire case for the cross.
In modern democracies, an executive pardon works by suspending justice. A president's power is lent to him by the people, and his clemency leaves the law unsatisfied. It sets the standard aside, leaving the debt unpaid and the moral order broken.
God derives His authority from Himself.
He could have excused human rebellion arbitrarily, and no one could have challenged Him. Yet He refused.
He would not compromise His integrity to exercise mercy. For God to rescue humanity without corrupting His own courtroom, justice and mercy had to be satisfied together at full strength.
That required an airtight legal framework.
The law had to be stated without ambiguity, which He did at Sinai. The penalty had to be non-negotiable: the wages of sin is death. And the mechanism had to be established in advance through the sacrificial system, where an innocent substitute temporarily bore the consequence of guilty rebellion.
Then Jesus entered the courtroom.
Instead of relaxing the standard to make obedience easier, He intensified it on the Mount. He dragged the law from outward compliance into the hidden motives of the heart, closing every human loophole and proving that nobody could pass the test on their own. Then, having lived in flawless alignment with that impossible standard, He offered Himself as the final sacrifice.
People often ask how the death of one man could answer for the sins of billions across history.
The math works because of who He is. Jesus is the Word through whom all things were made, the source holding reality together. Every single one of us draws our very breath and existence from Him. If His life is so robust that all of humanity draws from it, His death is robust enough to redeem us all.
Paul captures the whole thesis in Romans 3: God put Christ forward so that He might be just and the justifier.
Both realities are preserved at full strength in the exact same sentence.
Human systems can forgive or they can punish, but they can never do both with complete integrity. A president must choose between upholding the law or sparing the defendant. At the cross, the Judge satisfied the law by taking the sentence Himself.
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Thank-you for your thought-provoking and timely Law-Giver in the Dirt.
Some relevant quotes leading into my thoughts:
"Jesus is God incarnate. As the eternal Word, the magnificent Temple in Jerusalem was built for Him, by His design, and for His glory. It was the architectural heart of the Jewish universe, gleaming with white marble, polished limestone, and beaten gold. It was recognized across antiquity as the dwelling place of the divine presence."
Yet "He bypassed the grand marble colonnades, avoided the palaces of the religious elite, and walked all the way north to a common, wind-swept hillside in Galilee. He sat down on the grass, surrounded by day-laborers, fishermen, peasants, and social outcasts."
Why? "Because the Temple in Jerusalem had become the private fortress of the religious establishment."
We see here a pattern that exists in our own time with a message similar to the Jewish religious elite, "Salvation is only within the Temple."
From long before the Protestant Reformation, both Orthodox Christian and Roman Catholic Churches claimed "salvation is only within the church," therefore to be excommunicated meant hell. What power over the souls of men!
In our own time all thousands of Protestant churches make similar claims. And they feud against the RCC just as the RCC feuds against the Protestants. For whatever reason neither RCC or Protestant feud against the Orthodox Church.
Western religious elites have forgotten that salvation is the prerogative of Jesus Christ. He is the Sheep Herder who knows His sheep and calls them by name. And wherever they are they come to Him just as former Indian god-man Rabindranath Maharaj who gave up his Brahmin caste status, his god-man status, his worshippers, wealth, and more to follow His Lord Jesus Christ. (Death of a Guru, Rabindranath Maharaj)
If there is to be a final test of faith, perhaps it might be when religious leaders of both Protestant and RCC learn that both Protestant and RCC sheep will be in heaven together, and no longer referring to themselves as RCC or Protestant.
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Lisandro Martinez’s view that Michael Carrick has been sold short and the squad has not been equipped with the depth to fight on multiple fronts is shared by several senior players - and football staff. It has been discussed in the dressing room with the club aware of frustrations around recruitment.
There was a fear ahead of the campaign that the squad would not be strengthened properly - the lack of cover at left-back and striker were major concerns, which is evidenced in how much the need for reinforcements was stressed during pre-season interviews.
Told the driving reason behind Martinez’s airing these grievances publicly is fury that Carrick is likely going to lose his job despite not being given the tools to have a fair crack, and players are sick of reset after reset, without questions asked of the people in charge and what direction they’re taking the club in.
Carrick and the team have faced criticism, accepted it, and owned up to performances being nowhere near good enough.
Where is the accountability from the people who keep leading the club to one doom spiral after another?
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Pornography and masturbation are connected to the spirit of delay and stagnation. A number of people who masturbate struggle to build something constructive in their lives. They keep losing in business and in almost everything they do.
That is how the devil has kept some people in a cage. They have dreams, visions, and great potential, but they remain trapped in cycles that keep them from moving forward.
Deal with masturbation and pornography. Break free from these habits and take your purity seriously. As you overcome these struggles, you can regain your focus, rebuild your discipline, and give your dreams the attention they deserve.
You cannot keep entertaining what is destroying your discipline and expect to build the life you desire.
The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:12, “I will not be brought under the power of any.”
You were not created to be a slave to your desires. You can break free through Christ Jesus!
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If the ownership banish Lisandro Martinez, they will have only proven him right. Like when they sacked Ruben Amorim because of his emotional press conference outburst rather than for his performance as coach, they don't make decisions for the right reasons.
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He's so spot on. Last season they did create a base. The league was there for the taking. This was their one chance to close the gap at the top.
UCL night, and you rock up to the Wanda Metropolitano with a makeshift striker, makeshift winger, makeshift fullback.
Wish more people knew where to direct their frustration.
