So it's election time and I wanted to encourage anyone who still looks at this blog to think through voting according to God's kingdom standards and not the wisdom of this world's system.
Some friends of mine in Denver put the following in their latest newsletter, I pilfered it into our bulletin last Sunday and thought it mentioned the idea of the "world's system" quite well:
"The world is a system that is political, financial, social, ethical, and religious and is in opposition to and alienated from the God of the Scriptures….It began with Cain. "Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod [wondering]" east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). Jude identifies the world system as "The way of Cain" [jealousy], the "error of Balaam" [love of money and compromise] and the "rebellion of Korah" [resisting God's leaders and authority] (vs. 11). The Apostle John further identifies examples of the world as the "lust of the flesh" [like Cain] and the "lust of the eyes"[like Balaam] and the "boastful pride of life" [like Korah] (1 John 2:16). The Apostle Paul warns, "see to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ" (Colossians 2:8)—Bob and Dottie Bingham, September 2008 Update.
I'll try to post "grace" thoughts especially from Isaiah as we continue on in the second half of the book.
