"Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it." (Psalms 94:7)
As far as that controversial Scripture goes, what makes it controversial is that the man appears to be cheating his master in order to gain favor with his master's debtors. I often wondered at what point the man knew he was getting let go, until I realized that the parable involved two separate worlds, two separate masters. Our old nature is to be reckoned dead in Christ, so if we are still having some serious issue with sinning, we should reckon there is something missing in our ability to reckon the old man has died. Otherwise, it is just a matter of us stopping from serving that old master, the one we somehow think we owe something to, and get on serving our new Master and start storing up treasure in heaven! Anywho, it is totally inconceivable that we can have any power at all, if we do not believe that God is All-Powerful and All-Knowing. Better yet, I will take this to a greater level than that, by saying, It is inconceivable that we can really love God if we do not believe that He personally loves us; which, by the way, means that He is watching and caring for us personally and with great expectation. It has got to be personal! Here is something very interesting, and I am not quite sure to make of it; but the NLT has the verse above saying, "and besides, the God of Israel doesn't care." In the footnotes it say, "Hebrew of Jacob. See note on 44:4." I am not sure that I am in agreement with that, because the way I understand the writings, Jacob is more that just another name, it represents the Redemption on so many different levels. Jacob was the name of a swindler and of a heal catcher; one who was a deceiver, one who was second but would be counted as first; one who was dependent upon Another to make it into the Kingdom. That pretty much sums up who we really are and why we need to be called Israel, governed by God! We can only truly be governed by God if we believe that God is watching and caring over our lives, personally! If we are speaking about a nation, then it's one thing; but God is calling us individually, and as such, we are responsible for what we do on our own. I guess you could say, if we are not phased by the leadership not thinking God is watching or caring what they do, then we have some serious issues with what we believe God can do, not only in our church, but in our own lives. Now, regarding that parable: There is one thing and one thing only that matters in the Kingdom of God, getting people saved. Now let me ask you this, What does getting saved have to do with releasing of debts? When you really get right down to it, we are still in debt, but the debt that we owe now is not our own; our debts have been paid, and at such a great price; but there are so many more people that need some debt relief. I guess you could say, that is what it means to be about our Father's business...
"One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. "There was a judge in a certain city," he said, "who neither feared God nor cared about people. A widow of that city came to him repeatedly saying, 'Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.' The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, 'I don't fear God or care about people, but this woman is driving me crazy. I'm going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!'" Then the Lord said, "Learn a lesson from the unjust judge. Even he rendered a just decision in the end. So don't you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he on the earth who have faith?"" (Luke 18:1-8) NLT
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