I am not better than... BY OLAF SEVERIN
 Well, often we may
state it. But, if we r not better than others, would
it mean, we were as evil as them? I Cannot agree with it. Just because
there is a distinction in the Tanakh and same in the `NT´, telling us
about "rigtheous people" and "wicked people".
If our G'd Himself makes this difference in proving people, so, what
would it mean, when we do not, when we count ourselfs "to the outlaws"?
Reading Zack/Sech 11:4-17, we see how the evil shepherds really r. There
is a pointing to the future, to the giving Yeshua into the pagan´s
hand, vers 10-13. Before the man received 30 silver, he broke the staff
of the friendliness to "all populations/nations". This is a hint, maybe
to G'd. Taking it serious, we see that once was- or still is- a covenant
between the man and all menkind, what ever it ment.
Vers 14 reports us the bitter truth of today, as we see, what is going
on within and without YisraEl. So, no wonder that many Jews/Yisraelites
without Yeshua reject those who r with him as being heathens and "no
longer Jews".
We see the extremes on both sides:
Hypocrits who think to be better than others, and humble ones who think
to be as evil as the wicked ones.
Today I do´nt agree with both viewpoints. We, being renewed and cleansed
"by the blood" of Yeshua, r "no longer in the status of sinners".
Thereof, we r better than wicked ones. Please, let us learn to see it as
a fact.
Still "the flesh wars against the spirit within us", but this is another
circumstance than still being a sinner. The epistles tell it very
clear:
We were former sinners, now we r children and "housemates" of our G'd.
How long will we ignore it? Well, we know the doctrines of the "forgiven
sinners" or "rigtheous made sinners", both contradicts in themselfs.
What r we now? Sinners or rigtheous ones?
Please, let us think a new thaught. Not former doctrines alike, but a
thaught of the Bible.
The Tanakh and the epistles r full of this grace, reporting us that G'd
changes our status. If He changes- who r we to slander back into half
and half position?
Again:
Let us think a new thaught.
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