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This short article provides a short glimpse human excrament in the Bible. It starts with a look at Jerusalem's dunghill, then a prophet's call to eat manure, a curse on dishonest priests, and ends with the suffering servant. | |||
[[Image:Hinnom.JPG|right|thumb|300px|This valley is called "Hinnom" in Hebrew and "Gehenna" in Greek. Gehenna is often translated as "Hell" in English.]] | [[Image:Hinnom.JPG|right|thumb|300px|This valley is called "Hinnom" in Hebrew and "Gehenna" in Greek. Gehenna is often translated as "Hell" in English.]] | ||
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“So that all the scriptures could be fulfilled”, Jesus took the curse intended for the priests on himself. The Roman soldier spread dung on his face – he added human dung to the recipe of the bread of life that God sent from heaven. And with that, Jesus became Jerusalem’s dung Gate. He took all of our evil, iniquity, and sorrow into himself, as well as the judgment and curse for that evil. Looking down from Golgotha, Jesus would have seen Jerusalem, and perhaps the Hinnom Valley in the distance. Jesus’ last experience was to taste the dunghill, hell on earth. Then he cried “it is finished”, as he took your shame in his embrace to the grave. | “So that all the scriptures could be fulfilled”, Jesus took the curse intended for the priests on himself. The Roman soldier spread dung on his face – he added human dung to the recipe of the bread of life that God sent from heaven. And with that, Jesus became Jerusalem’s dung Gate. He took all of our evil, iniquity, and sorrow into himself, as well as the judgment and curse for that evil. Looking down from Golgotha, Jesus would have seen Jerusalem, and perhaps the Hinnom Valley in the distance. Jesus’ last experience was to taste the dunghill, hell on earth. Then he cried “it is finished”, as he took your shame in his embrace to the grave. | ||
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|''Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.'' (Psalms 69:70) | |||
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God loves you, a lot. If you have ever experienced shame, Jesus came down to your level. If you have ever caused shame, Jesus said, “Father, forgive them”. That is the righteousness of God in Christ. Let’s admit that it is by Grace we are saved through Faith in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We are not saved by our own works – we only tarnish God’s good plan when we add our own self-righteousness into the recipe. When we focus on our own works, we end up “eating and drinking damnation…not discerning the Lord’s body”. | God loves you, a lot. If you have ever experienced shame, Jesus came down to your level. If you have ever caused shame, Jesus said, “Father, forgive them”. That is the righteousness of God in Christ. Let’s admit that it is by Grace we are saved through Faith in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We are not saved by our own works – we only tarnish God’s good plan when we add our own self-righteousness into the recipe. When we focus on our own works, we end up “eating and drinking damnation…not discerning the Lord’s body”. | ||