What Is Fair – blog 4/6/25
The reason people’s sense of fairness varies so widely is that their scale of values also varies widely.
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One of the greatest blessings we’re given as children of God is a change in our scale of values. As that happens through God’s sanctifying Word (ala John 17:17) our sense of fairness changes, freeing us from the bondage of the question that plagues the rest of humanity.
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The great advantage you have as a believer is the ability to give with Christ’s heart. Grace is the baseline for God’s scale of values. It’s not what others have that you don’t, it’s what you can give that others can’t (Acts 20:35). If anyone has cause to be jealous in this world it ought to be those who have no idea about what I just wrote.
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One of the greatest blessings we’re given as children of God is a change in our scale of values. As that happens through God’s sanctifying Word (ala John 17:17) our sense of fairness changes, freeing us from the bondage of the question that plagues the rest of humanity.
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The great advantage you have as a believer is the ability to give with Christ’s heart. Grace is the baseline for God’s scale of values. It’s not what others have that you don’t, it’s what you can give that others can’t (Acts 20:35). If anyone has cause to be jealous in this world it ought to be those who have no idea about what I just wrote.
It’s impossible for any human being, without God’s divine intervention, to ever be righteous to the standard that God demands for salvation.
Unsaved people (especially those from false religions) will always look to their left and right instead of to Heaven for their own justification.
The OT sacrifices, by themselves, were NOT appeasing to the Lord!
Any “goodness” in God’s eyes comes from the obedience that comes from faith alone!
The issue with OT rituals/sacrifices was FAITH that manifest in obedience!
Obedience is the manifestation that contributes to our OWN ASSURANCE of our salvation. It’s not WHAT we do so much as it is WHY we do it.
The Bible is filled with two aspects: how a person is saved & how salvation is assured.
The 3 Wills of God:
- Decretive (aka God’s “sovereign/efficacious will”): refers to whatever God wants to happen, does. Period.
- Preceptive (aka God’s “commands”): refers to whatever God desires his creatures to do (implies possible disobedience)
- Permissive: (aka “God’s “actively passive will”): refers to whatever God permits to happen AND has also decreed
If you’re not reading your Bible IN CONTEXT, you aren’t reading your Bible properly and therefore are immediately prone to misinterpretation, using your human intuition and/or fleshly desires to interpret the mind of Christ (very bad).
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