2 Corinthians 3:9 If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull a...

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The Message - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
新标点和合本 - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有荣光，那使人称义的事奉的荣光就越发大了。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有荣光，那使人称义的事奉的荣光就越发大了。
当代译本 - 那定人罪的事工尚且有荣耀，这赐人义的事工岂不更有荣耀吗？
圣经新译本 - 如果那定人有罪的工作尚且有荣光，那使人称义的工作就更有荣光了！
中文标准译本 - 因为那带来定罪的服事工作尚且有荣光，何况那带来称义的服事工作，难道不更充满了荣光吗？
现代标点和合本 - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
和合本（拼音版） - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
New International Version - If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
New International Reader's Version - The law that condemns people to death had glory. How much more glory does the work of the Spirit have! His work makes people right with God.
English Standard Version - For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
New Living Translation - If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God!
Christian Standard Bible - For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
New American Standard Bible - For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.
New King James Version - For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Amplified Bible - For if the ministry that brings condemnation [the old covenant, the Law] has glory, how much more does glory overflow in the ministry that brings righteousness [the new covenant which declares believers free of guilt and sets them apart for God’s special purpose]!
American Standard Version - For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
King James Version - For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
New English Translation - For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
World English Bible - For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
新標點和合本 - 若是定罪的職事有榮光，那稱義的職事榮光就越發大了。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有榮光，那使人稱義的事奉的榮光就越發大了。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有榮光，那使人稱義的事奉的榮光就越發大了。
當代譯本 - 那定人罪的事工尚且有榮耀，這賜人義的事工豈不更有榮耀嗎？
聖經新譯本 - 如果那定人有罪的工作尚且有榮光，那使人稱義的工作就更有榮光了！
呂振中譯本 - 引致定罪的職事尚且有榮光，引致稱義的職事就越滿溢着榮光了。
中文標準譯本 - 因為那帶來定罪的服事工作尚且有榮光，何況那帶來稱義的服事工作，難道不更充滿了榮光嗎？
現代標點和合本 - 若是定罪的職事有榮光，那稱義的職事榮光就越發大了。
文理和合譯本 - 若致罪之役既榮、則致義之役益榮矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 若定罪之法榮、則稱義之法益榮、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 若定罪之役有榮、則稱義之役更榮、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 彼掌定罪之職者、尚且有榮、則參贊成道之事者、其榮將有不可思議者矣！
Nueva Versión Internacional - Si es glorioso el ministerio que trae condenación, ¡cuánto más glorioso será el ministerio que trae la justicia!
현대인의 성경 - 사람을 죄인으로 만드는 직분이 영광스럽다면 사람을 의롭게 하는 직분은 더욱 영광스러운 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, si le ministère qui a entraîné la condamnation des hommes a été glorieux, combien plus glorieux est celui qui conduit les hommes à être déclarés justes par Dieu !
リビングバイブル - 死に通じる計画にも栄光があったのなら、人々を神との正しい関係に導く計画には、なおさら栄光が満ちあふれるのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ γὰρ τῇ διακονίᾳ τῆς κατακρίσεως δόξα, πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης δόξῃ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ γὰρ τῇ διακονίᾳ τῆς κατακρίσεως, δόξα πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης δόξῃ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Se era glorioso o ministério que trouxe condenação, quanto mais glorioso será o ministério que produz justificação!
Hoffnung für alle - Wenn schon der Auftrag, der den Menschen die Verurteilung brachte, so sichtbar Gottes Herrlichkeit ausstrahlte, wie viel herrlicher ist dann der Auftrag, durch den die Menschen von ihrer Schuld vor Gott freigesprochen werden!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nếu công vụ kết án đã vinh quang, công vụ công chính lại càng vinh quang hơn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากพันธกิจที่ตัดสินโทษมนุษย์ยังเปล่งรัศมี พันธกิจที่นำความชอบธรรมมาให้จะเปล่งรัศมีเจิดจ้ายิ่งกว่านั้นสักเท่าใด!
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะถ้ากฎบัญญัติแห่งพันธสัญญาเดิม อันนำมาซึ่งการกล่าวโทษยังมีพระสง่าราศี พันธสัญญาใหม่แห่งความชอบธรรมก็จะมีพระสง่าราศีมากยิ่งกว่าเพียงไร

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Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
Hebrews 3:6 - Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we’re the house! That’s why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen; don’t turn a deaf ear as in “the bitter uprising,” that time of wilderness testing! Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, “They’ll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road.” Exasperated, I vowed, “They’ll never get where they’re going, never be able to sit down and rest.”
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
Exodus 20:18 - All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid—they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we’ll listen, but don’t have God speak to us or we’ll die.”
Romans 5:15 - Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Romans 5:18 - Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
Romans 5:20 - All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
2 Peter 1:1 - I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
Exodus 19:14 - Moses went down the mountain to the people and prepared them for the holy meeting. They gave their clothes a good scrubbing. Then he addressed the people: “Be ready in three days. Don’t sleep with a woman.”
Exodus 19:16 - On the third day at daybreak, there were loud claps of thunder, flashes of lightning, a thick cloud covering the mountain, and an ear-piercing trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp shuddered in fear.
Exodus 19:17 - Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God. They stood at attention at the base of the mountain.
Exodus 19:18 - Mount Sinai was all smoke because God had come down on it as fire. Smoke poured from it like smoke from a furnace. The whole mountain shuddered and heaved. The trumpet blasts grew louder and louder. Moses spoke and God answered in thunder. God descended to the peak of Mount Sinai. God called Moses up to the peak and Moses climbed up.
Romans 1:18 - But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
Romans 3:21 - But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.
Hebrews 12:18 - Unlike your ancestors, you didn’t come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—to hear God speak. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop. When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. Even Moses was terrified.

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交叉引用

The Message - If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation? Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?
新标点和合本 - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有荣光，那使人称义的事奉的荣光就越发大了。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有荣光，那使人称义的事奉的荣光就越发大了。
当代译本 - 那定人罪的事工尚且有荣耀，这赐人义的事工岂不更有荣耀吗？
圣经新译本 - 如果那定人有罪的工作尚且有荣光，那使人称义的工作就更有荣光了！
中文标准译本 - 因为那带来定罪的服事工作尚且有荣光，何况那带来称义的服事工作，难道不更充满了荣光吗？
现代标点和合本 - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
和合本（拼音版） - 若是定罪的职事有荣光，那称义的职事荣光就越发大了。
New International Version - If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!
New International Reader's Version - The law that condemns people to death had glory. How much more glory does the work of the Spirit have! His work makes people right with God.
English Standard Version - For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
New Living Translation - If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God!
Christian Standard Bible - For if the ministry that brought condemnation had glory, the ministry that brings righteousness overflows with even more glory.
New American Standard Bible - For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness excel in glory.
New King James Version - For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
Amplified Bible - For if the ministry that brings condemnation [the old covenant, the Law] has glory, how much more does glory overflow in the ministry that brings righteousness [the new covenant which declares believers free of guilt and sets them apart for God’s special purpose]!
American Standard Version - For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
King James Version - For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
New English Translation - For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!
World English Bible - For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
新標點和合本 - 若是定罪的職事有榮光，那稱義的職事榮光就越發大了。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有榮光，那使人稱義的事奉的榮光就越發大了。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 若是那使人定罪的事奉有榮光，那使人稱義的事奉的榮光就越發大了。
當代譯本 - 那定人罪的事工尚且有榮耀，這賜人義的事工豈不更有榮耀嗎？
聖經新譯本 - 如果那定人有罪的工作尚且有榮光，那使人稱義的工作就更有榮光了！
呂振中譯本 - 引致定罪的職事尚且有榮光，引致稱義的職事就越滿溢着榮光了。
中文標準譯本 - 因為那帶來定罪的服事工作尚且有榮光，何況那帶來稱義的服事工作，難道不更充滿了榮光嗎？
現代標點和合本 - 若是定罪的職事有榮光，那稱義的職事榮光就越發大了。
文理和合譯本 - 若致罪之役既榮、則致義之役益榮矣、
文理委辦譯本 - 若定罪之法榮、則稱義之法益榮、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 若定罪之役有榮、則稱義之役更榮、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 彼掌定罪之職者、尚且有榮、則參贊成道之事者、其榮將有不可思議者矣！
Nueva Versión Internacional - Si es glorioso el ministerio que trae condenación, ¡cuánto más glorioso será el ministerio que trae la justicia!
현대인의 성경 - 사람을 죄인으로 만드는 직분이 영광스럽다면 사람을 의롭게 하는 직분은 더욱 영광스러운 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если служение, которое осуждает человека, было окружено такой славой, то насколько же большей славой наделено служение, несущее человеку оправдание!
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - En effet, si le ministère qui a entraîné la condamnation des hommes a été glorieux, combien plus glorieux est celui qui conduit les hommes à être déclarés justes par Dieu !
リビングバイブル - 死に通じる計画にも栄光があったのなら、人々を神との正しい関係に導く計画には、なおさら栄光が満ちあふれるのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ γὰρ τῇ διακονίᾳ τῆς κατακρίσεως δόξα, πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης δόξῃ.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ γὰρ τῇ διακονίᾳ τῆς κατακρίσεως, δόξα πολλῷ μᾶλλον περισσεύει ἡ διακονία τῆς δικαιοσύνης δόξῃ.
Nova Versão Internacional - Se era glorioso o ministério que trouxe condenação, quanto mais glorioso será o ministério que produz justificação!
Hoffnung für alle - Wenn schon der Auftrag, der den Menschen die Verurteilung brachte, so sichtbar Gottes Herrlichkeit ausstrahlte, wie viel herrlicher ist dann der Auftrag, durch den die Menschen von ihrer Schuld vor Gott freigesprochen werden!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nếu công vụ kết án đã vinh quang, công vụ công chính lại càng vinh quang hơn.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากพันธกิจที่ตัดสินโทษมนุษย์ยังเปล่งรัศมี พันธกิจที่นำความชอบธรรมมาให้จะเปล่งรัศมีเจิดจ้ายิ่งกว่านั้นสักเท่าใด!
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Romans 8:3 - God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it. And now what the law code asked for but we couldn’t deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.
Hebrews 3:6 - Now, if we can only keep a firm grip on this bold confidence, we’re the house! That’s why the Holy Spirit says, Today, please listen; don’t turn a deaf ear as in “the bitter uprising,” that time of wilderness testing! Even though they watched me at work for forty years, your ancestors refused to let me do it my way; over and over they tried my patience. And I was provoked, oh, so provoked! I said, “They’ll never keep their minds on God; they refuse to walk down my road.” Exasperated, I vowed, “They’ll never get where they’re going, never be able to sit down and rest.”
2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Government of Death, its constitution chiseled on stone tablets, had a dazzling inaugural. Moses’ face as he delivered the tablets was so bright that day (even though it would fade soon enough) that the people of Israel could no more look right at him than stare into the sun. How much more dazzling, then, the Government of Living Spirit?
Exodus 20:18 - All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid—they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, “You speak to us and we’ll listen, but don’t have God speak to us or we’ll die.”
Romans 5:15 - Yet the rescuing gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If one man’s sin put crowds of people at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God’s gift poured through one man, Jesus Christ, will do! There’s no comparison between that death-dealing sin and this generous, life-giving gift. The verdict on that one sin was the death sentence; the verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful life sentence. If death got the upper hand through one man’s wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, absolute life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides?
Romans 5:18 - Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! One man said no to God and put many people in the wrong; one man said yes to God and put many in the right.
Romans 5:20 - All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers. But sin didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it. Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
2 Peter 1:1 - I, Simon Peter, am a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ. I write this to you whose experience with God is as life-changing as ours, all due to our God’s straight dealing and the intervention of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
Exodus 19:14 - Moses went down the mountain to the people and prepared them for the holy meeting. They gave their clothes a good scrubbing. Then he addressed the people: “Be ready in three days. Don’t sleep with a woman.”
Exodus 19:16 - On the third day at daybreak, there were loud claps of thunder, flashes of lightning, a thick cloud covering the mountain, and an ear-piercing trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp shuddered in fear.
Exodus 19:17 - Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God. They stood at attention at the base of the mountain.
Exodus 19:18 - Mount Sinai was all smoke because God had come down on it as fire. Smoke poured from it like smoke from a furnace. The whole mountain shuddered and heaved. The trumpet blasts grew louder and louder. Moses spoke and God answered in thunder. God descended to the peak of Mount Sinai. God called Moses up to the peak and Moses climbed up.
Romans 1:18 - But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth. But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is! By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse. What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives. They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life. They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.
Romans 3:21 - But in our time something new has been added. What Moses and the prophets witnessed to all those years has happened. The God-setting-things-right that we read about has become Jesus-setting-things-right for us. And not only for us, but for everyone who believes in him. For there is no difference between us and them in this. Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.
Hebrews 12:18 - Unlike your ancestors, you didn’t come to Mount Sinai—all that volcanic blaze and earthshaking rumble—to hear God speak. The earsplitting words and soul-shaking message terrified them and they begged him to stop. When they heard the words—“If an animal touches the Mountain, it’s as good as dead”—they were afraid to move. Even Moses was terrified.