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Notes for20 June 2018

 

God addresses His word to the Israeli people through the prophet Jeremiah. His indignation is provoked by the fact that people, who don’t fulfill the commandments (and do not even try), coming to the Temple, consider that everything is in order with them, - because they belong to God’s people. God is categorically against such an idea "collective salvation", when all are separately sinners, but "saved" together.

Doesn’t it seem to you, that such a representation of two and a half centuries ago hasn’t disappeared? Doesn’t it happen that we think that the most important for our salvation it is to be in "the true" church, to be in it "as everyone", and then we cannot only be considered sinner, but also continue being one? There is no need in the personal faith, in personal relationships with Christ, in deep repentance and in longing for holiness. There is no personal responsibility for our deeds and our thoughts - because salvation belongs to us, accordingly to the membership to the church. But from God’s point of view it is all the opposite: our membership in "the true" Church, in the Body of Christ is defined by our personal relationship with Christ and our personal responsibility before Him.

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