Sublime

In Acts 1:8 Jesus gave us a pattern for involvement: “You will tell everyone about me in Jerusalem, in all Judea, in Samaria, and everywhere in the world.”17 His followers were to reach out to their community (Jerusalem), to their country (Judea), to other cultures (Samaria), and to other nations (everywhere in the world). Note that our commission

“So the deuteronomists codified the religion. Made it into an organized, self-propagating entity,” Hiro says. “I don’t want to say virus. But according to what you just quoted me, the Torah is like a virus. It uses the human brain as a host. The host—the human—makes copies of it. And more humans come to synagogue and read it.”

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that’s sin.

Since we too are mortal, we bear the traces of that original sin. But if one man brought sin into the world, so one man can eliminate it from the world. God had sent His son into the world for just that reason. His death was a sacrificial offering that cleansed humanity of the burden of guilt. In his death, the Law died, and with it, sin. The “new

We might summarize these four major points like this: God, man, Christ, and response.

He says it all sincerely. This is God's single plan, through Torah-equipped Israel, for the world.

There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

As a prophet, Jesus staked his reputation on his prediction of the Temple’s fall within a generation; if and when it fell, he would thereby be vindicated.