The Bible: The Mind of Christ, synopsized.
Believe It, Become Love Evangelized.
(B.I.B.L.E.)
Summarizing life’s complexity:
Life, Internship for Eternity.
(L.I.F.E.)
It reveals God’s plan very clearly,
To reverse our sin calamity.
To restore righteousness on Earth, sustainably,
He gives four Delegations of Authority. (DOA)
Summarizing life’s complexity:
Life, Internship for Eternity.
(L.I.F.E.)
It reveals God’s plan very clearly,
To reverse our sin calamity.
To restore righteousness on Earth, sustainably,
He gives four Delegations of Authority. (DOA)
The first one He gave
to our first parents.
For their sin, they
received His harsh judgments.
Devils joined in with
their own sin foray.
So by a flood, God
unleashed man’s doomsday.
DOA #2:
A couple of millennia
after the flood,
With a man, Jesus
made a covenant in blood.
The man, Abraham,
believed God. To him
righteousness was imputed.
Lands were promised,
and as The Father of Faith,
he was
instituted.
The expectation was
through a then barren couple,
Jesus would come as
Christ via a holy people.
Four generations
later, Jesus was quite ready,
To issue His 2nd
DOA. T’was quite heady!
Rather than a blanket
DOA, exceptional,
This time, Jesus used
a DOA, conditional.
In the form of The Ten
Commandments and Laws Levitical,
The weight of this
DOA was indeed considerable!
As with the 1st
DOA, this people blew it, big time!
For several
millennia, they mimicked devils’ mimes.
1
While a few of them strove
to make their life’s walk upright,
Most shunned
restraints, and caved to devilish delights.
God’s judgments upon
them fell as sinfulness amassed.
Like our first
parents, out of ‘garden lands’ they
were cast!
Oh the agony and such a
familiar refrain!
Ahhh, merciful grace and patience
of God to us, sustained!
Demands of this DOA
were too much for any man!
Still it served a
major purpose in God’s redemption plan:
By it, man’s hopeless
and sinful nature was confirmed,
And our need for a
redeeming Savior was affirmed.
Two DOA’s down, and two
more to come!
Two designed to keep
us out of a sin’s slum.
The first one, unconditional,
issued to a couple.
The second one,
conditional, issued to a people.
The 3rd
DOA, quite different in its approach.
Will it do the job as
sins continue to encroach? 2
Like the 1st, will it
be blanket or filled with provisos? 3
And if we still miss the mark, what judgments will it
impose?
To this DOA revue, I
hope you will stay tuned,
To see what God has
next in store for mankind’s sin wound.
While the 3rd
DOA you may know or have a clue,
It sets the stage for
the 4th, breathtakingly brand
new!
Can you perhaps guess what is DOA #3?
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1 Mime, a form of acting without words;
pantomime.
2 Encroach, to advance beyond prior limits
3 Provisos, conditions attached to an agreement
3 Provisos, conditions attached to an agreement
