DAILY TRUTH - People Aren’t Just Fallen, They’re Finite
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We are creatures that even if Adam had never broken the covenant of works, even if he sinned against god, he was still finite. He would not have died physically, living forever, but he would still be finite. And even when our fallenness is done away with, when this life ends, we breathe our last and we go to be with Christ, we will still have to learn as creatures.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
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we are creatures that even if adam had never broken the covenant of works even if he had never
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sinned against god he was still finite he would not have died physically he would have gone on
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physically living forever but he would still be finite he would never be omniscient you and i
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even in the life to come even with our glorified bodies that will never grow tired that will never
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get sick, that we'll never die. And even when our fallenness is done away with, as 1 John says,
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when this life ends, we breathe our last and we go to be with Christ. Paul says to be absent from
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the body is to be present with the Lord. So on that day where we go to be present with the Lord,
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because we have died physically in this life, 1 John says that when we see him, we will be like
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him for we shall see him as he is that is to say that we will be sinless so the category of our
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fallenness will be done away with and yet even in our glorified heavenly existence with God
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being done away completely done away with sin even then we will no longer be fallen but still
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finite and what I mean by that just one example is that we will never be omniscient that is all
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knowing that even 10,000 years into heaven, we will not know everything. We will still have to
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learn as creatures. Now, I believe that there will be a quick head start making up the gap in an
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instant when we die and go to be with the Lord. I think that we will quickly come up to speed in
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many regards. I think that merely just as a practical effect of our sanctification having
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been complete at that time. In being fully sanctified in our heavenly existence, there are
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certain knowledgeable aspects that will come with that. We will know certain things and believe and
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trust certain things that we struggle to know or are lacking in our knowledge and lacking in our
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faith here in this life today. So we'll quickly be caught up to speed, but even then, even then we
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will not be omniscient. And I believe that someone who has been in heaven for 6,000 years, such as
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Adam, will be more knowledgeable of God and the things of God than somebody who enters heaven
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on day one. Again, this is not fallenness category. This is creaturely finitude category,
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that we will never be omniscient and we will always be in a process as creatures of learning.
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commanding one man from each of the 12 tribes of Israel
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to go and fetch a stone out of the midst of the Jordan
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is he's saying that both in regards to man's fallenness
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for those of us who have faith in Jesus according to the promise.
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Still, in both instances, there is a propensity towards forgetting.
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Because we are sinful, but also because we are finite,
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Because of these things, we are prone to forget,
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that the Lord remembers our frame, that we are dust.
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That is actually not a reference to God being mindful
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but that's actually the Lord in his compassion and mercy
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towards us being finite creaturely beings he remembers it doesn't say he remembers that we
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are sinful or he remembers that we are rebels no he remembers our frame that we are dust that even
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the most sanctified among us are still finite adam was made from the dust and to dust we will
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return. And God, who is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, he is also compassionate. He is
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compassionate and merciful. He remembers our frame. That is, he takes account of the fact that we are
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not only fallen, but that we are finite, that we are made of dust, that we are weak, and that we
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are prone to forgetfulness and so therefore it is in God's mercy not him laying upon us a heavy
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burden an extra commandment just for the fun of it but no rather in his kindness compassion and
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mercy God commanded Israel that they should erect a memorial a monument to help them in their
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fallenness and finitude not to forget his covenant faithfulness to past generations and so too it's
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worth noting that God has done that for us true Israel under the new covenant today we have been
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given memorials we have been given signs and seals visible memorials to remind us of God's covenant
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who he is, what he has done on our behalf, and what he promises to all those who trust
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in him. Namely, bread, wine, and water. Bread, wine, and water. Fight by flight,
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why leaving godless places is loving godless places. I've had a lot of people tell me recently,
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pastor joel you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch
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but apparently you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal
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story that you used to be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title
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not fight or flight but fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope
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he's longing to be fed with the pods given to the pigs and the parable says no one gave him
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anything no member of the father's house tracked him down to give him a handout he was hurting
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he had to lie in the bed that he had made for himself by his foolish choices you know what
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the next words in that parable are no one gave him anything and he came to his senses he began to
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repent. There are 10 million professing Christians currently living in the state of California.
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What if they're fighting, but at the same time, while well-intentioned, they're also funding?
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What if California could be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there,
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but leaving there and forcing Gavin Newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to
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take a spoonful of their own medicine the book has been forwarded by douglas wilson it's been
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with you for just a second right here at the end. Look, some of you guys, you're financially
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