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Volume 15, Issue 6
November/December 2011
Glad Tidings November/December 2011
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SOMETHING TO CONSIDER December 25th as the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ has little to do with the Scriptures, history, or astronomy. The consensus among many scholars is that the choice of December 25 was determined in the third century to correspond with pagan festivals with worship of the celestial sun. Some good scholarly work that compares the Scriptures, history, and astronomy deems the birth occurred in September, probably the 11th day. Even though the date is wrong, we can still celebrate our Lord’s birth and acknowledge the biblical records during this holiday season. The study of this topic is invigorating because it magnifies God’s omniscience and omnipotence plus reveals the awesomeness of our Lord Jesus. The prophets recorded in the Old Testament many specific details about the birth, and the New Testament reveals their extraordinary fulfillment. The authenticity of Jesus as the Christ is proven by the completion of the intricate, complex blueprint foretold by the prophets. Isaiah foretold in chapter 7:14 about the virgin birth and that his name would be Emmanuel, which is fulfilled in Matthew 1:18-23. Micah (5:2) gave prophecy about the birth that would be in Bethlehem in the land of Judah, and this took place recorded in Matthew 2:5. Hosea speaks about the Messiah coming out of Egypt, which happened because Joseph took Mary and Jesus into Egypt to protect him from Herod – Hosea 11:1 and Matthew 2:15. Jeremiah declared the information about the suffering in Bethlehem when Herod murdered the children – Jeremiah 31:15 and Matthew 2:16-18. Isaiah also told he would live in a city called Nazareth – Isaiah 11:1 and Matthew 2:19:23. What was the probability that Jesus’ birth could fulfill Micah’s prophecy about Bethlehem? How this unfolded is astounding. Caesar Augustus sent out a decree that all the people register for taxes. The registration was specific to take place not in the town where they lived, but the town in which they were born. Joseph, because he was of David’s lineage, returned to Bethlehem. The whole world was set in motion to bring Mary to Bethlehem so that her son would be born in the city of David. Little did Caesar know that his decree was fulfilling God’s will. God has always been in supreme control. Pharaohs, kings, and Caesars have thought themselves to be in control, but the Word of God testifies differently. According to Luke 2:5, Mary was great with child since she was in the last days of her pregnancy. Bethlehem was overflowing with people who had come to register for taxes. So crowded was this city that a fully term, pregnant woman could only find shelter in a stable. Perhaps Mary and Joseph arrived later than most because she was traveling in the last days of her pregnancy. Luke 2:6 and 7 While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth and she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. The story is indeed inspiring and worthy of our acknowledgement during this time of year so that we can appreciate his birth and communicate to others who do not know the truth. Instead of Ho, Ho, Ho, Mimi and I pray for you and your loved ones and say Ho, Ha, He – holiness, happiness, and health. God’s best to you,
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t one point, our Lord’s biological brothers (they had the same mother but different fathers) did not believe in him according to John 7:5. Since many of the things Jesus did and said were so radically unusual and much different than expected from the messianic one, his family thought he was out of his mind. “When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind,” (Mark 3:21NIV). When Mary and his brothers arrived to take him, they found him sitting in a crowd. Some told Jesus his mother and brothers were outside looking for him, and he responded in a thought provoking way.
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round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. The Scriptures reveal that Mary and her sons would later change their minds and believe, but at this point not so. To Jesus, those who do the will of God comprise his family, which does not necessarily include earthly family. For him, and it should be for us too, the spiritual family supersedes the biological family. How great a reality and how lofty a thought that we should be considered by Almighty God to be His children!
Mark 3:31-35 He answered them, saying, who is my mother, or my brethren? And he looked
1 John 3:1&2 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called ...shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and children of God; and such we are. For this mother. reason the world does not know us, because it did not know him. Beloved, now we are children of God. The third chapter of John makes clear the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil. Those who practice righteousness belong to God, and 4
those who practice sin are of the devil. The key word to understand is “practice,” which implies a lifestyle, not episodes. The children of God are not sinless; rather, we have episodes of sin with a lifestyle of righteousness. The sons of the devil have a lifestyle of sin with episodes of righteous acts. Jesus proudly considers the children of God to be his brothers as is stated in Hebrews 2:11- “For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren.” We are family and should behave as family. Loyalty and love are the hallmarks of our family. We are loyal to God and loyal to each other. Everyone has times of sin when we do things that do not edify a brother or flat out hurt a brother. In a family, things happen; everyone and everything are not perfect yet. We need to do whatever is necessary to reconcile the hurts we cause and to stand together. We do not want to act cowardly when things do not go our way and discard (to get rid of because it is considered useless or unpleasant) the family. Jesus provides detailed instruction of (Continued on page 5)
Accepting the New Man By Mary Ann Yaconis
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aul was an important and influential Pharisee in Jerusalem who, the book of Acts explains, was not in agreement with those who believed that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah. Part of the reason many of the Jews at that time did not believe on Jesus was because they were looking for a King to take over the rule of the Jews and establish a new kingdom. When this did not occur with Jesus of Nazareth, they continued to look for a Messiah to deliver them from the Roman oppression. A devout Jew, Saul was actively arresting those of “the way” and taking them to trial. Saul was on his way to Damascus with a letter from Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin giving him authority to roust out the Christians and bring them bound to Jerusalem for trial. His purpose was to squelch this rebellion
against the Jews that was coming from within their ranks. As Saul was traveling on a well trodden road to Damascus, a great light flashed from the sky and shone all around him. At the sight of this brightness, Acts 9:4-6 …he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.” Saul became blind and was led to the house of a disciple named Judas who lived in Damascus. At this point, Saul’s life took a drastic turn. There in Damascus, another disciple, Ananias, was called by the Lord in a vision which pro-
claimed that he was to go to the house of Judas and minister to Saul of Tarsus. The Lord told Ananias that Saul would be praying and would have already received a vision of Ananias laying hands on him and healing Saul’s sight. The next event is quite interesting because Saul was very well known for his intense persecution of those who were disciples of Christ. The disciples were skeptical of Saul, and Ananias knew of Saul’s reputation and quickly brought it to the Lord’s attention. Acts 9:13-14 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem; and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.” (Continued on page 6)
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we deserve it the least.
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how to have godly relationships and how to make things right when there is a hurt brother. He never said to give up on the family! God is our Father, and we are brothers and sisters. We all need some of that good, good, godly loving. We often need to be loved the most when
1 Corinthians 13:4-6 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth 5
During the holidays, people seem to be more concerned about family. Like Jesus, we want to be most concerned about the family of God and yet also maintain loving concern for our earthly families. Galatians 6:10 While we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
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Acts 9:15-16 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.” Ananias obeyed, arrived at Judas’ home, and prayed for Saul. His blindness left, and the Lord began his work within Saul. What happened was a radical transformation. Saul had been clearly against those who believed on Jesus and then became a dynamic preacher proving to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. However, some of the disciples had a hard time accepting these changes. Could this be for real, or was he just being a spy to be able then to arrest the disciples? How could one’s behavior change in such a dynamic and radical way? Acts 9:19-22 Now for several days he was with the disciples who were at Damascus, and immedi-
ately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” All those hearing him continued to be amazed, and were saying, “Is this not he who in Jerusalem destroyed those who called on this name, and who had come here for the purpose of bringing them bound before the chief priests?” Acts 9:26 When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Similarly today, it is not uncommon that we know of one’s past and find it difficult to believe that a person can change. Granted, at this time Saul was to be feared, but in accepting Jesus Christ as his Master, Saul changed from his old ways to new ones. The difficulty of the disciples to accept this transformed Saul is quite imaginable. After all, it
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was quite a radical change in behavior. Can people really change like that? Can God deliver people from dark ways of being to healthy, godly ways of living? The answer is a resounding, “YES!” As with the disciples of old, we today often have difficulty accepting the godly changes family members and friends make when they stop angry habits, backbiting, negativity, or any sin pattern and implement a godly one. We have an old man
nature habit of seeing people as they were and have a difficult time seeing and trusting the new creation they have become. At times, we all fall short of the new behaviors, and we are instructed what to do at these times. 1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another because love covers a multitude of sins. We as brothers and sisters in Christ can encourage and help sustain godly changes in those we love by recognizing, appreciating, and honoring new behavior patterns. Sometimes we “know” another’s past too well and forget that each one can become better. Just as Barnabas and other disciples rejoiced at the conversion of Saul, we can rejoice with one another as we all shed sin patterns and delight with others who now live righteously.
Congo Connection By Richard and Cheryl Elton Many thankful families as the 2011-2012 school year begins The school year is underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This year, more than 50 children in the Kinshasa fellowships are attending school because of the financial support of sponsors in North America. In the DRC, there is no public schooling − families must pay to send their kids to school. Many Congolese families struggle to afford this expense. Often a child falls behind if a family can’t pay for a year or two. Therefore, it is a tremendous blessing that others in the family of God can help them with this need. Sponsors commit to pay the children’s school expenses and prayerfully support them for the year. With the funds sent by sponsors, Rev. Kennedy and Rev. Kael have been able to assist many families in their churches with school tuition, new uniforms and shoes, books, and a few other items that the children would not otherwise
have. All of the families have expressed thankfulness and joy for this support. Meet the children We’d like to introduce you to a few of the sponsored children this school year, so that you might get to know them and their families a bit. (We’re using only first names
Deborah to protect the families’ privacy.) Deborah is ten years old and in the third grade. Her father abandoned the family when she was small. In September, a car hit Deborah on her way home from school. She suffered a fractured femur and was in the hospital for several weeks. LHIM sent the required funds so that she could have the needed surgery in a timely manner. She is now recovering nicely. Without the surgery, Kennedy said she would likely have been in the hospital for many months. Now she will be able to return to school. Jurdy is ten years old and in fifth grade. Her father has been unable 7
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to pay school fees regularly. When Rev. Kennedy told the family of a sponsor’s support being available this year, Jurdy’s mother said, “May God continue to bless that person.” Ken is eight years old and in third grade. His parents are both unemployed. Ken is also being sponsored for the first time this school year. His mother said, “I never thought there are still churches out there who do such works. It is Ken truly living out ‘love thy neighbor.’ We are very thankful.” How you can help To assist with LHIM’s ongoing efforts to help our three partner ministries in the Congo, you can send a check to LHIM anytime. Simply put “Congo Fund” in the memo line. Money is used to aid believers like Deborah and her family with unexpected financial emergencies as well as to develop and send books and other teaching supplies. For information on the school sponsorship program, contact LHIM by email at info@LHIM.org or by phone at 518-785-8888. As always, your prayerful support for our brothers and sisters in the Congo and for these efforts is needed and appreciated!
Psalm 110 By Vince Finnegan
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salm 110 is a short psalm packed with prophetic information about our Lord Jesus Christ. Some of the information cannot be found in any other place in the Old Testament. The frequent quotations or references to this Psalm in the New Testament provide clear understanding about its unique message. Psalms 110:1 The LORD [Yahweh] said unto my Lord [adon], Sit thou at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. The English Bibles designate the different Hebrew words by translating the first “LORD” in all caps and the second in lower case letters. “LORD” comes from the Hebrew YHWH (Yahweh) which is God’s proper name. The second “Lord,” translated from the Masoretic text, is the Hebrew word “adon.” The three Hebrew words most often translated “LORD” or “Lord” in the English Bibles are as follows.
YHWH Transliterated Yahweh– proper name of God • Adone – refers primarily to men as Lord or master – husband, prophet, king, prince, governor, owner, controller, etc. • Adonai - Emphatic form of adone – A title for God translated Lord, used 444 times, most of which refer directly to God. (Three occurrences are angels who represent Yahweh.)
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With the acknowledgement of the Hebrew words, we gain insight into the meaning of the verse YHWH [God] said unto my [David’s] human Lord [Adon].” Clear straight forward understanding can be gained from the New Testament. Jesus asked a question of some annoying religious leaders, recorded in Matthew 22:41-46 and Luke 20:42-44. He said regarding the Christ, “Whose son is he?” They responded by saying that he is David’s son. Jesus followed up by quoting Psalms 110:1 and asked, “If David then calls him Lord, how is he his son?” They did not understand the Messiah was the Son of God and as such the Lord over all men including David in the day of resurrection. On the day of Pentecost after Jesus was resurrected from the dead and ascended to the right hand of God, Peter comprehensibly set the full understanding of Psalm 110:1. 8
Acts 2:29-35 "David says of him, ‘I saw the Lord always in my presence; for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; moreover my flesh also will live in hope; because you will not abandon my soul to hades, nor allow your holy one to undergo decay. You have made known to me the ways of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence. Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh suffer decay. This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses. Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the holy spirit, he has poured forth this which you both see and hear. For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: the LORD said to my lord, sit at my right hand, (Continued on page 9)
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Psalm 110 continued... until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet. The Old Testament has numerous references to the earthy messianic monarchy and the resurrection of the dead. The concept of the resurrection was common knowledge for
Israel as it related to their hope. However, I do not think they comprehended that the Messiah was going to die and be the first resurrected from the dead. Psalm 110 is the only place in the Old Testament that refers to the ascended Christ seated at the right hand of God in heaven. Until Peter connected Psalm 110 with the ascension of Jesus, no one understood because God kept a secret. Not knowing God’s plan about the ascension, people were disappointed with Jesus while he walked the
earth because he did not reign on the throne of David in Jerusalem. Once the believers understood, they eagerly looked forward to his return. Today, Jesus is still in heaven at God’s right hand and is awaiting the time God will make his enemies his footstool and send him back to reign as King on earth. Like the disciples of old, we too look expectantly to that glorious day. Psalm 110 has more on what Jesus is currently doing and what he will do in the future, and it will be discussed in future articles in Glad Tidings.
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Only Human
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hat does the phrase, “I’m only human,” mean? We use these words when someone has just made a foolish mistake. For example, a husband who has forgotten to leave the toilet seat down is awakened in the middle of the night by a rather indignant wife in a fury over such an inconsideration. He replies groggily, “I’m sorry; I forgot; I’m only human.” The phrase is used to express something we feel deeply about humanity in its present condition. We are flawed creatures who often forget, make mistakes, and act selfishly. “I’m only human” means others should not expect too much from me since I am limited and “prone to wander” as the hymn put it. This sentiment is reinforced by the narrative in Genesis 3 about our fall. Through an act of rebellious disobedience, our first parents fell short of the glory of God and in so doing contaminated our species. By noting how the lifespans in Scripture show a decidedly downward trend, we gain the impression that over time humankind has continued its descent as it continues to degenerate from generation to generation. We are sons of Adam and daughters of Eve who tend towards selfishness and rebellion. Holiness and self-sacrificial love are not “natural” for us; we have to work hard to resist our “flesh.” Even with maximal effort, we are complete failures without external help from God through His spirit. Ungodliness, however, comes without effort as if intertwined in our very DNA. When we think of being human, we think of our current fallen state.
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Nevertheless, this kind of thinking may require some serious readjusting. Our race was not the unfortunate result of a God who carelessly ducttaped us together from leftovers strewn around on the ground, nor are we the accidental byproduct of a long mindless series of natural processes. Rather, we came to be through the climactic act of the benevolent and almighty King of the universe who carefully and ingeniously crafted us in His own image. How beautiful must Adam and Eve have been? How brilliant were they? I doubt they ever came into a room and could not remember what it was they intended to get. As a master craftsman, God did quality work turning out two magisterial humans finely tuned for life on earth. Then, to humanity, the sovereign One gave the royal duty of reigning over creation as His representatives. The first humans knew nothing of sin and all of its dark consequences. They enjoyed a relationship with the Most High and were unencumbered by iniquity and impurity. The Father placed His darling creatures in the Garden of Eden (“Eden” means pleasure or delight) and graciously gave them three commandments: have a lot of children, rule over the world, eat any of the plants except the forbidden tree. The world was not made to imprison them, nor were the rules He gave for the purpose of holding them back. Life was good; the world was young and bounteous; and humanity lived in joyous harmony with God, each other, and the rest of creation. This is true humanity. 10
Since we have seen two contrasting descriptions of what it means to be human, which one is the standard? Should we equate humanity with our present fallen, selfish, depraved existence, or should we think of how our race was first created prior to our descent into the bottomless pit of sin and rebellion? Depending on what choice we make, we will need to name the opposite view with respect to our baseline definition. For example, if we identify humanity with our current reality, then Adam and Eve prior to sin were not really “human,” but something better; perhaps they were “super humans.” However, if we define humanity based on its original design, then Adam and Eve began as genuine humans who plummeted into a lower level of existence; perhaps they became “sub humans.” I am contending here that the second of these two approaches is better. Humanity should be defined by its original glorious beginning rather than by how we are now. Thus, we are not fully human, but are fallen, corrupt versions of humanity − we are sub-human. I propose we calibrate our thinking this way for three reasons: (1) things are typically defined by origin, (2) this approach affirms God’s competence, and (3) it helps us to avoid over spiritualizing tendencies. I will take each of these in turn. We should think of humanity as that ma g n i fic e n t a n d h a r mo n io u s existence that Adam and Eve enjoyed before they sinned because this is how God originally made us. When (Continued on page 11)
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choosing a definition, one often finds it helpful to go back to the beginning and think about when something was made. For example, a person may use a screwdriver to bang a nail into the wall, but this does not make it a hammer. A screwdriver remains a screwdriver because it was manufactured as a screwdriver. Even if someone leaves it outside and it gets rusted, it remains a screwdriver. If it becomes bent so that it is no longer able to drive screws, it is still a screwdriver, albeit a useless one. I’m sure there are exceptions to this definitional rule, but in the case of humanity, this way of thinking seems to fit quite well. We are still humans, but we’ve become rusty and bent so that we no longer fully exhibit our former glory, nor are we able to carry out our purpose effectively.
God’s craftsmanship is not the problem but something that happened after we left the factory.
“Jesus, on the other hand, was fully human…”
A second reason why we ought to recalibrate our understanding of humanity relates to God’s competence. If we think of humanity as inherently flawed, we may end up unintentionally accusing God of incompetence. For example, if the horn honked on my car each time I hit the brakes, I might merely conclude that my particular vehicle is defective. However, if all of the cars made by the same manufacturer exhibited this same brokenness, then we would be on good grounds to question the skill of the manufacturer. So, if we think of humanity as a class of beings inherently flawed and prone to selfishness, surely this reflects on God. However, if we think of ourselves as sub-human (or fallen humans), then we recognize that
Lastly and most importantly, this understanding helps prevent us from over spiritualizing who Jesus is and who we will become after the resurrection. One of the earliest beliefs that late first and early second century Christians contended with was called Docetism. An idea was floating around that Jesus was not actually a human being, but a nonphysical being who only appeared to be a man. The epistles of John confront this teaching head on, calling the one who does “not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh” a “deceiver” and an “antichrist” (2 John 1:7). Ignatius of Antioch likewise contended with such people a generation later and wrote that Jesus “truly suffered…not as certain unbelievers maintain, that he only seemed to suffer” (Smyrneans 2:1). Ignatius goes on to point out that even after the resurrection and ascension, Christ still possessed flesh (Smyrneans 3; Luke 24:39-43). Against a world that considered humanity helplessly flawed, the Christians were adamant: Jesus had actually come as a flesh and blood human being, not merely an illusion. 11
Another group of second century Christians called “the Gnostics” (the Knowers) likewise devalued humanity, especially the body. They hypothesized that our true self, or soul, had come from a heavenly realm and somehow became imprisoned in these fleshy bodies. Our destiny, they said, was to escape at death in order to ascend back up to the divine fullness. Early Christians like Justin and Irenaeus fought hard against movements that depreciated the “flesh” as inherently evil. Rather than looking at matters from a fall from above followed by an ascent at death, they recognized the goodness of God’s original creation and His ultimate plan to redeem it in the Kingdom of God. In conclusion, our problem is not that we are “only human” but that we are not human enough; we are tainted copies of a glorious archetype. Jesus, on the other hand, was fully human, patterned after the first man. He was not a hologram or a pseudoman; he was a real human—the kind of being we are destined to become. Thus, Jesus is not a “mere man” as if he participated in our common errorprone condition, but he is the quintessential human who righted the wrong of our first parents and redeemed the whole race. Because of what he did, God has promised that one day the faithful will fulfill their original royal destiny when the Kingdom comes and our Father’s will is finally done on earth (Matthew 5:3-10; 6:10; Revelation 5:9-10; 11:15). Come Lord Jesus!
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And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.� Luke 1:31-33